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Numerics
"It is certainly an idea you have there," said Poirot, with some interest.
"Yes, yes, I play the part of the computer.
One feeds in the information -"
"And supposing you come up with all the wrong answers?" said Mrs Oliver.
"That would be impossible," said Hercule Poirot.
"Computers do not do that sort of a thing."
"They're not supposed to," said Mrs Oliver,
"but you'd be surprised at the things that happen sometimes."
Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (1969)
(quoted by Donald Knuth in his "The Art Of Computer Programming: vol. 2, Seminumerical Algorithms", 3rd edition, 1998)
In this section I include short notes on commonly unexpected numerical results.
These are not original findings, so I cite the appropriate source in
each case. The hope is that I'll keep adding to these if I can find the
time.
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