Chapter 2

Reliability amid Chaos

Stan Wagon

Problem 2

2.1 A First Look · 2.2 Chasing the Photon · 2.3 Reliable Reflections

Solution is known to more than 10,002 digits.

Code

• Mathematica (supporting code is included as initialization cells)
   
  • Sessions: p. 35/36, 36/37, 42/43
  • Table: 2.1
  • Figures: 2.1–2.5
     

This is a web page for the book:

Folkmar Bornemann, Dirk Laurie, Stan Wagon, Jörg Waldvogel: The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge, A Study in High-Accuracy Numerical Computing. Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, 2004.

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