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The art of computer programming, volume 2 : seminumerical algorithms / Donald Ervin Knuth

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, Massachusetts : Addision-Wesley Publishing Company, c1998Edition: Third editionDescription: xiii, 764 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780201896848
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA 76.6 .K58 1998
Contents:
Chapter 3-Random Numbers -- Chapter 4-Arithmetic -- Answers to Exercises -- Appendixes -- Index and Glossary
Summary: The second volume offers a complete introduction to the field of seminumerical algorithms, with separate chapters on random numbers and arithmetic. The book summarizes the major paradigms and basic theory of such algorithms, thereby providing a comprehensive interface between computer programming and numerical analysis. Particularly noteworthy in this third edition is Knuth's new treatment of random number generators, and his discussion of calculations with formal power series.
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Includes index.

Chapter 3-Random Numbers -- Chapter 4-Arithmetic -- Answers to Exercises -- Appendixes -- Index and Glossary

The second volume offers a complete introduction to the field of seminumerical algorithms, with separate chapters on random numbers and arithmetic. The book summarizes the major paradigms and basic theory of such algorithms, thereby providing a comprehensive interface between computer programming and numerical analysis. Particularly noteworthy in this third edition is Knuth's new treatment of random number generators, and his discussion of calculations with formal power series.

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