Updates and Errata

The road to wisdom?—Well, it's plain and simple to express:
Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
                                            ―Piet Hein

Updates

• There is a follow-up paper The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge: A Decade Later by F. Bornemann with additional and updated material

• Zhendong Wan has a breakthrough in speed for the rational solution of Problem 7.

Errata (of the second printing, 2006)

• Errata, amendments, and improvements (text only)
   

Errata (of the first printing, 2004)

• Errata, amendments, and improvements (text only)
   

• What Figure 9.2 (left) should have looked like
   

• What Figure 10.1 should have looked like

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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