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The study addresses the problem of precision in floating-point (FP) computations. A method for estimating the errors which affect intermediate and final results is proposed and a summary of many software simulations is discussed. The basic…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Glauco Masotti

A reasonably complete theory of the approximation of an irrational by rational fractions whose numerators and denominators lie in prescribed arithmetic progressions is developed in this paper. Results are both, on the one hand, from a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-27 Faustin Adiceam

We explore an algorithm for approximating roots of integers, discuss its motivation and derivation, and analyze its convergence rates with varying parameters and inputs. We also perform comparisons with established methods for approximating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-11 William Gerst

The AAA algorithm for rational approximation is employed to illustrate applications of rational functions all across numerical analysis.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Yuji Nakatsukasa , Lloyd N. Trefethen

If several independent algorithms for a computer-calculated quantity exist, then one can expect their results (which differ because of numerical errors) to follow approximately Gaussian distribution. The mean of this distribution,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Andrej Liptaj

The error function of real argument can be uniformly approximated to a given accuracy by a single closed-form expression for the whole variable range either in terms of addition, multiplication, division, and square root operations only, or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Dimitri N. Laikov

The papers shows an algorithm to search for approximations of reals to rationals of the form a/b^2 that runs on \sqrt(b) polynomial time steps.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Jimenez Calvo

Elementary function calls are a common feature in numerical programs. While their implementions in library functions are highly optimized, their computation is nonetheless very expensive compared to plain arithmetic. Full accuracy is,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Eva Darulova , Anastasia Volkova

The conventional rounding error analysis provides worst-case bounds with an associated failure probability and ignores the statistical property of the rounding errors. In this paper, we develop a new statistical rounding error analysis for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yiming Fang , Li Chen

In the literature, we have various ways of proving irrationality of a real number. In this survey article, we shall emphasize on a particular criterion to prove irrationality. This is called nice approximation of a number by a sequence of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Tirthankar Bhattacharyya , Soham Bakshi , Arka Das

An approximate program transformation is a transformation that can change the semantics of a program within a specified empirical error bound. Such transformations have wide applications: they can decrease computation time, power…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Edwin Westbrook , Swarat Chaudhuri

Rational and neural network based approximations are efficient tools in modern approximation. These approaches are able to produce accurate approximations to nonsmooth and non-Lipschitz functions, including multivariate domain functions. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-08 Vinesha Peiris , Reinier Diaz Millan , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

This paper studies whether rationality can be computed. Rationality is defined as the use of complete information, which is processed with a perfect biological or physical brain, in an optimized fashion. To compute rationality one needs to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Tshilidzi Marwala

We consider estimation procedures which are recursive in the sense that each successive estimator is obtained from the previous one by a simple adjustment. We propose a wide class of recursive estimation procedures for the general…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Teo Sharia

We investigate the rational approximation of fractional powers of unbounded positive operators attainable with a specific integral representation of the operator function. We provide accurate error bounds by exploiting classical results in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Lidia Aceto , Paolo Novati

We consider estimation procedures which are recursive in the sense that each successive estimator is obtained from the previous one by a simple adjustment. We study rate of convergence of recursive estimation procedures for the general…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Teo Sharia

We introduce new rounding methods to improve the accuracy of finite precision quantum arithmetic. These quantum rounding methods are applicable when multiple samples are being taken from a quantum program. We show how to use multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Rajiv Krishnakumar , William Zeng

We present a detailed study of roundoff errors in probabilistic floating-point computations. We derive closed-form expressions for the distribution of roundoff errors associated with a random variable, and we prove that roundoff errors are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-28 George Constantinides , Fredrik Dahlqvist , Zvonimir Rakamaric , Rocco Salvia

What is computable with limited resources? How can we verify the correctness of computations? How to measure computational power with precision? Despite the immense scientific and engineering progress in computing, we still have only…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Attila Egri-Nagy

Modern computer architectures support low-precision arithmetic, which present opportunities for the adoption of mixed-precision algorithms to achieve high computational throughput and reduce energy consumption. As a growing number of…

Computation · Statistics 2024-12-02 Sahil Bhola , Karthik Duraisamy