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Author(s): Folkmar Bornemann, Dirk Laurie, Stan Wagon and Jörg Waldvogel
Title: The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge: A study in high-accuracy numerical computing
Additional book information: SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 2004, xii+306 pp., (paperback) US$57.00, ISBN 0-89871-561-X


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Jonathan M. Borwein and David H. Bailey, Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century, A K Peters, Natick, MA, 2004. MR 2033012 (2005b:00012)

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Jonathan M. Borwein, David H. Bailey and Roland Girgensohn, Experimentation in Mathematics: Computational Paths to Discovery, A K Peters, Natick, MA, 2004. MR 2051473

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``The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge'' (website), http://www.siam.org/books/ 100digitchallenge.

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Lloyd N. Trefethen, ``Maxims about Numerical Mathematics, Computers, Science, and Life'', SIAM News, vol. 31 (1998), no. 1, pg. 4.

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Lloyd N. Trefethen, ``The $100, 100-Digit Challenge'', SIAM News, vol. 35 (2002), no. 6, pp. 1-3. Also available at http://www.siam.org/siamnews/01-02/challenge.pdf.


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Reviewer(s):
David H. Bailey
Affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Email: dhbailey@lbl.gov

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 545-548.

MSC (2000): Primary 65-02, 65-05
PII: S 0273-0979(05)01066-9
Posted: June 1, 2005
Dedicated: This work was supported by the Director, Office of Computational and Technology Research, Division of Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy, under contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098.


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