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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
6. Round-Off Error Propagation
Author : Tobias Weinzierl
Published in: Principles of Parallel Scientific Computing
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Round-off errors creep into our calculations with every non-trivial floating point instruction. We introduce a formalism how to analyse round-off errors in implementations, and discuss when and why numerical calculations suffer from a lack of associativity, cancellation or accumulation stagnation.
