Lecture: Floating point numbers

Eric Grimsom - MIT

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Lecture Description

Floating point numbers, successive refinement, finding roots

Course Description

This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It also aims to help students, regardless of their major, to feel justifiably confident of their ability to write small programs that allow them to accomplish useful goals. The class will use the Pythonâ„¢ programming language.

from course: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

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