On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 8:46:36 AM UTC+1, Christoph Ortner wrote:
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> I agree it is easy to learn, but numerical analysts are *not* computer 
> scientists, nor should they be expected to be. 
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>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.


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