Lecture 16

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

1. Explain the idea of numerical stability of algorithms, and why it is important to consider it.

Reading assignment

1. UIUC Lecture 16.
2. Chapter 7 of text, section 7.6.

Exercises and review questions

• Exercises and review questions on current lecture's material
  1. Let us say that you are optimizing the performance of a numerical algorthm, and you find an opportunity to improve its performance by changing the order of some operations. What additional factors will you consider before going ahead with this optimizaation?

• Preparation for the next lecture
  1. None.

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Last modified: 3 Mar 2015