Java™ Number Cruncher: The Java Programmer's Guide to Numerical Computing

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[ch01biblio01entry01] Steven C., Chapra, and Raymond P. Canale, Numerical Methods for Engineers, 3rd edition, New York: WCB/McGraw-Hill, <year>1998</year>.Chapra uses a clever illustration to explain the differences between accuracy and precision on pages 59–60.

[ch01biblio01entry02] Richard W. Hamming,, Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, 2nd edition, New York: Dover, <year>1986</year>.This text discusses the quadratic formula and how to rearrange formulas in general in Sections 3-1 through 3-5.

[ch01biblio01entry03] Pat H. Sterbenz,, Floating-Point Computation, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, <year>1974</year>.This entire book is on floating-point arithmetic. It proves that floating-point arithmetic fails certain ...