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Mathematics of Computation

Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1960 (published as Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation 1943-1959), Mathematics of Computation is devoted to research articles of the highest quality in computational mathematics.

ISSN 1088-6842 (online) ISSN 0025-5718 (print)

The 2020 MCQ for Mathematics of Computation is 1.78.

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The accuracy of linear interpolation in tables of the mathematics of finance
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Math. Comp. 3 (1949), 408-412 Request permission
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    See Theodore E. Raiford, Mathematics of Finance. Boston, 1945, p. 25, note, and W. L. Hart, Mathematics of Investment, third ed., Boston, 1946, p. 75 and p. 138. In these texts the following statement is made. Experience shows that it is safe to assume that a value of I found by interpolation is in error by not more than $\tfrac {1}{{20}}$ of the difference of the table rates used in the interpolation.
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  • © Copyright 1949 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 3 (1949), 408-412
  • MSC: Primary 65.0X
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1949-0029277-X
  • MathSciNet review: 0029277