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Floating-Point Arithmetic and Numerical Error

Learning Objectives

  • IEEE-754 representation, machine epsilon, ulp, and overflow
  • Roundoff error, cancellation, and catastrophic cancellation
  • Forward error, backward error, and conditioning

Weekly Outcome

By the end of this module you will be able to construct vectorized numerical experiments, quantify floating-point and discretization error, and produce reproducible diagnostic plots with dimensionally consistent physical quantities.