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Numerical error

In software engineering and mathematics, numerical error is the combined effect of two kinds of error in a calculation. The first is caused by the… (More)
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2015
2015
The end of numerical error
It is time to overthrow a century of methods based on floating point arithmetic. Current technical computing is based on the… (More)
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2014
2014
On Numerical Error Propagation with Sensitivity
Numerical software, common in scientific computing or embedded systems, inevitably uses an approximation of the real arithmetic… (More)
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2010
2010
Perturbing numerical calculations for statistical analysis of floating-point program (in)stability
Writing reliable software is difficult. It becomes even more difficult when writing scientific software involving floating-point… (More)
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2008
2008
Interface Error Analysis for Numerical Wave Propagation
The numerical error associated with finite-difference simulation of wave propagation in discontinuous media consists of two… (More)
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2007
2007
Numerical algorithm for the time fractional Fokker-Planck equation
Anomalous diffusion is one of the most ubiquitous phenomena in nature, and it is present in a wide variety of physical situations… (More)
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2006
2006
Numerical error analysis in Zernike moments computation
An exact analysis of the numerical errors being generated during the computation of the Zernike moments, by using the well-known… (More)
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2004
2004
Truncation Error Analysis of Multipole Expansion
The multilevel fast multipole algorithm is based on the multipole expansion, which has numerical error sources such as truncation… (More)
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2003
2003
Numerical error for SDE: Asymptotic expansion and hyperdistributions
The principal part of the error in the Euler scheme for an SDE with smooth coefficients can be expressed as a generalized… (More)
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2000
Highly Cited
2000
Efficient Numerical Error Bounding for Replicated Network Services
The goal of this work is to support replicated network services that accept updates to numerical records from multiple wide-area… (More)
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1999
Highly Cited
1999
Goal-oriented Error Estimation and Adaptivity for the Finite Element Method Goal-oriented Error Estimation and Adaptivity for the Finite Element Method
In this paper, we study a new approach in a posteriori error estimation, in which the numerical error of nite element… (More)
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