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This section is an excerpt of the material presented in Chap. 2 of [3]. It is important to realize that a computer cannot perform numerical computations exactly like one would expect them to be done in mathematics.
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Gander, W. (2015). How a Computer Calculates. In: Learning MATLAB. UNITEXT(), vol 95. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25327-5_2
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