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Why do different calculators disagree on $\cos(452175521116192774 )$?

Published on 28 May 2022 - 16:56

Why does this desmos plot of the integral of $\sqrt{1+e^x}$ have these discontinuities?

Published on 16 Jun 2022 - 8:31

Computing log of a number with low precision calculator

Published on 02 Jul 2022 - 23:17

How can we calculate $\ln(x) - 1$ at $x \approx e$ using standard double precision arithmetic?

Published on 04 Jul 2022 - 15:22

Are there any ways to increase the precision in MATLAB without built in functions?

Published on 03 Oct 2022 - 14:40

Machine Precison for Roundoff

Published on 12 Oct 2022 - 11:51

Method for finding the largest positive difference between two pairs of IEEE 754 double precision floating point numbers and fixed-point numbers

Published on 29 Oct 2022 - 3:00

How can I determine the reason for the mismatch between the value of this infinite continued fraction and the expected result?

Published on 31 Dec 2022 - 3:16

Numerically stable evaluation of factored univariate real polynomial

Published on 04 Jan 2023 - 12:37

Evaluating $a(b + c)$ more accurately with FMA

Published on 14 Jan 2023 - 20:23