mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 05 2007 | computers, math, mathematica, excel, algorithms
Really insightful article about the difficulties of writing correct software - particularly in the realm of numerical calculation.
Also references an Excel 2007 calculation (display) error where the formula 850*77.1 is displayed as 100,000 (instead of 65,535)!
refaving darrellp
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