By mswatcher
via yosefk.com
Submitted: Feb 09 2013 / 12:28
Unlimited-precision symbolic computation is more elegant than floating point numbers. You simply never have any numerical stability problems. Anything algebraically correct - a valid way to solve for x given the equations involving x - is also computationally correct. You don't need to know all the quirks of floating point, and you won't need "numerical recipes" which are basically ways to deal with these quirks.
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