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This article is devoted to the study of classical and new results concerning equidistant sets, both from the topological and metric point of view. We start with a review of the most interesting known facts about these sets in the euclidean…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-13 Mario Ponce , Patricio Santibáñez

All sciences need and many arts apply mathematics whereas mathematics seems to be independent of all of them, but only based upon logic. This conservative concept, however, needs to be revised because, contrary to Platonic idealism…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. Mueckenheim

Integer sorting is a fundamental problem in computer science. This paper studies parallel integer sort both in theory and in practice. In theory, we show tighter bounds for a class of existing practical integer sort algorithms, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xiaojun Dong , Laxman Dhulipala , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

Comparative evaluation lies at the heart of science, and determining the accuracy of a computational method is crucial for evaluating its potential as well as for guiding future efforts. However, metrics that are typically used have…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-07-10 Kiwon Um , Xiangyu Hu , Bing Wang , Nils Thuerey

The recent hardware trend towards reduced precision computing has reignited the interest in numerical techniques that can be used to enhance the accuracy of floating point operations beyond what is natively supported for basic arithmetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Longfei Gao , Frimpong Baidoo

Nowadays, parallel computing is ubiquitous in several application fields, both in engineering and science. The computations rely on the floating-point arithmetic specified by the IEEE754 Standard. In this context, an elementary brick of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Farah Benmouhoub , Pierre-Loïc Garoche , Matthieu Martel

In many applications, one needs to learn a dynamical system from its solutions sampled at a finite number of time points. The learning problem is often formulated as an optimization problem over a chosen function class. However, in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Bing-Ze Lu , Richard Tsai

Being mathematics a natural language to Mankind and to physics, it must be constantly adapted to our necessities and our natural perception. Then, mathematical concepts are not absolute to reality. Although mathematical theories are…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mauricio Ayala

The detection of change points is a pivotal task in statistical analysis. In the quantum realm, it is a new primitive where one aims at identifying the point where a source that supposedly prepares a sequence of particles in identical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Gael Sentís , John Calsamiglia , Ramon Munoz-Tapia

We perform a systematic comparison of various numerical schemes for the approximation of interface problems. We consider unfitted approaches in view of their application to possibly moving configurations. Particular attention is paid to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Daniele Boffi , Andrea Cangiani , Marco Feder , Lucia Gastaldi , Luca Heltai

Models of computation operating over the real numbers and computing a larger class of functions compared to the class of general recursive functions invariably introduce a non-finite element of infinite information encoded in an arbitrary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-20 Hector Zenil

This paper introduced a way of fractal to solve the problem of taking count of the integer partitions, furthermore, using the method in this paper some recurrence equations concerning the integer partitions can be deduced, including the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Meng Zhang

This article discusses several erroneous claims which appear in textbooks on numerical methods and computational physics. These are not typos or mistakes an individual author has made, but widespread misconceptions. In an attempt to stop…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-12-25 Alexandros Gezerlis , Martin Williams

Arithmetic operations can be defined in various ways, even if one assumes commutativity and associativity of addition and multiplication, and distributivity of multiplication with respect to addition. In consequence, whenever one encounters…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-19 Marek Czachor

Modern programmable digital signal processing relies on floating-point numbers for their ease of use. Fixed-point number formats have the potential to save resources and improve execution time, but realising this potential burdens the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Agathe Herrou , Florent de Dinechin , Stéphane Letz , Yann Orlarey , Anastasia Volkova

The number partitioning problem consists of partitioning a sequence of positive numbers ${a_1,a_2,..., a_N}$ into two disjoint sets, ${\cal A}$ and ${\cal B}$, such that the absolute value of the difference of the sums of $a_j$ over the two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. F. Ferreira , J. F. Fontanari

In the present article, real number representations, that are generalizations of classical positive and alternating representations of numbers, are introduced and investigated. The main metric relation, properties of cylinder sets are…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Symon Serbenyuk

Starting from classical algebraic geometry over the complex numbers (as it can be found for example in Griffiths and Harris it was the goal of these lectures to introduce some concepts of the modern point of view in algebraic geometry. Of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Martin Schlichenmaier

We survey classical and recent developments in numerical linear algebra, focusing on two issues: computational complexity, or arithmetic costs, and numerical stability, or performance under roundoff error. We present a brief account of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-06-22 Olga Holtz , Noam Shomron

This article is meant to give a lucid and widely accessible, self-contained account of a novel way of performing arithmetic operations on fuzzy intervals. Based on two formulae of generalized inversion (the first in close analogy to the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Jan Schneider