ESSAY: Ten digit algorithms
AM (8 august 2005) This message appeared in the "NA Digest newsletter":
"I have written an essay, presented as the Mitchell Lecture at the
recent Dundee meeting, that advocates the production of Ten Digit
Algorithms, defined by the conditions "Ten digits, five seconds,
and just one page". The essay comes with 32 Matlab examples.
I imagine these views may provoke some strong reactions among NA
Digest readers. Would interested parties like to take a look at
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/nick.trefethen/tda.html and
send me any comments? If the responses are interesting I may post
a follow-up note later on.
Nick Trefethen, Oxford University"Both the essay and the associated examples present a nice challenge IMHO for anyone interested in numerical analysis and Tcl.
RS isn't quite sure - can the following script be considered the minimal compliant "algorithm"? :^)
set tcl_precision 10 after 5000
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