English | PDF | 2012 | 884 Pages | ISBN : 9380250401 | 87.13  MB

During the last twenty years since the publication of the first edition of the book, the speed as well as memory of computers have increased by a few orders of magnitude. However, the precision with which the floating point operations are being handled on these computers has not improved. As a result, the relevance of roundoff errors in numerical computations has increased substantially. In this book, an attempt is made to demonstrate that with proper care the errors do not grow very fast with the size of computational problem. Thus the book is probably more relevant today than it was twenty years back. The main aim of this book has been to not only provide suitable algorithms for numerical computations, but also to explain their limitations.