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Book Information
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,
US$57.00 (paperback),
0-89871-561-X
References:
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- 1.
- David H. Bailey, Peter B. Borwein and Simon Plouffe, ``On the Rapid Computation of Various Polylogarithmic Constants'', Mathematics of Computation, vol. 66, no. 218 (April 1997), pp. 903-913. MR 1415794 (98d:11165)
- 2.
- 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)
- 3.
- Jonathan M. Borwein, David H. Bailey and Roland Girgensohn, Experimentation in Mathematics: Computational Paths to Discovery, A K Peters, Natick, MA, 2004. MR 2051473
- 4.
- ``The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge'' (website), http://www.siam.org/books/ 100digitchallenge.
- 5.
- Lloyd N. Trefethen, ``Maxims about Numerical Mathematics, Computers, Science, and Life'', SIAM News, vol. 31 (1998), no. 1, pg. 4.
- 6.
- 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.
Additional Information:
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
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-05-01066-9
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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