Day 05 in Mat360

Today:

• Announcements:
  • Remember: homework 1.1 due Friday
  • We'll have a brief quiz to start off on Friday (section 1.3)
  • Make sure you check out your assignments on the assignment page
  • Handouts for section 1.3:
    • summary
    • worksheet

• Wrapping up Section 1.2:

  • Return Quiz 2

  • So, questions:
    • How do we avoid or prepare for errors?
    • How do we measure errors?
    • How do we minimize errors (since we're guaranteed to get some)?

  • For example,
    • we could minimize errors in our representation of reals, by taking 16 byte reals. But at what cost?
    • What is the cost of taking 1 byte reals?

  • section 1.2 summary

  • section 1.2 worksheet

  • Problems from section 1.2:
    • 1b
    • 2b
    • 3b
    • 4d