Significant digits

DOI10.1080/0020739910220113MaRDI QIDQ3350673zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lasse Vehmanen

Publication date 1991

Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739910220113

zbMATH Keywords

Newton's methodsquare rootrelative errorsignificant digits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Roundoff error (65G50) Numerical computation of solutions to single equations (65H05)

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