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          |  |  Generally Efficient Numerics Programming in Mathematica
 
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 | Organization: | Wolfram Research, Inc. | 
 | Department: | Kernel Technology | 
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          |  |  1999 Mathematica Developer Conference
 
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          |  |  Champaign, IL
 
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          |  |  Mathematica 4 allows you to use and write numerical procedures that are not only efficient but also very general; they can work both with machine-hardware numbers and with arbitrary-precision software arithmetic. In this talk, I will explain some of the details behind how efficient machine-number and arbitrary-precision arithmetic and numerical functions work and will show, with a variety of examples, how you can write your own efficient and general programs.
 
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 |  | Numerics.nb (32 KB) - Mathematica Notebook | 
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