On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 8:46:36 AM UTC+1, Christoph Ortner wrote: > > > I agree it is easy to learn, but numerical analysts are *not* computer > scientists, nor should they be expected to be. >
>From wikipedia i read: Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm> that use numerical approximation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximation> (as opposed to general symbolic manipulations <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_computation>) for the problems of mathematical analysis <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_analysis> (as distinguished from discrete mathematics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_mathematics>) So i somehow expect some understanding about discretization of numbers. I agree that NAs do not need to know the background how numbers are represented in the computer.
