Resolving Numerical Anomalies in Scientific Computation
David H. Bailey · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2008
The increasing numbers of large scientific computer systems in use, together with the rapidly increasing scale of computations being attempted on such systems, means that numerical anomalies pose a growing threat to the soundness of these computations. This note presents a number of examples of common numerical anomalies that can arise, illustrated by some actual computer programs available on a website, together with a discussion of how these problems could be mitigated with improved software tools.