Condition Number

Shared Foundations · Numerics · condition-number.yaml

How much a problem amplifies error in its input. Separates a badly behaved problem from a badly written algorithm, which is a distinction worth making before optimising either.

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G condition-number Condition Number floating-point Floating-Point Arithmetic condition-number->floating-point bounds how much accuracy a result can possibly retain

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