A Cautionary Example Relating to the Interpretation of Numerical Results
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2023-11-20 v2
Abstract
In this paper we propose a very specific educational challenge that teachers can use to motivate ambitious and enthusiastic mathematics students who have mastered basic trigonometry and trig functions. The objective is to lead students to a result that will hopefully surprise and entertain and - more importantly - provide a lesson about when and when not to make inferences relating to "numerical error" when using mathematical software and calculators.
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@article{arxiv.2112.10873,
title = {A Cautionary Example Relating to the Interpretation of Numerical Results},
author = {Jeffrey Uhlmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.10873},
year = {2023}
}
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