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These methods may be called analytical, by contrast with another class of iterations that might be called arithmetic, since they exploit the fact that the number representation is finite and digital. The familiar Homer s method is an example. The first step is to establish that a root lies between a certain pair of consecutive integers. Next, if the representation is decimal, f(x) is evaluated at consecutive tenths to determine the pair of consecutive tenths between which the root lies. This is repeated for the hundredths, thousandths, etc., to as many places as may be desired and justified. 

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Irrational numbers, expressed in decimal form have a never-ending number of decimal places in which there is no repeat pattern. For example, n is expressed as 3.141 592 653... and e as 2.718 281 82... As irrational numbers like n and e cannot be represented exactly by a finite number of digits, there will always be an error associated with their decimal representation, no matter how many decimal places we include. For example, the important irrational number e, which is the base for natural logarithms (not to be confused with the electron charge), appears widely in chemistry. This number is defined by the infinite sum of terms ... 

Most of the phenomena of science have discrete or continuous models that use a set of mathematical equations to represent the phenomena. Some of the equations have exact solutions as a number or set of numbers, but many do not. Numerical analysis provides algorithms that, when run a finite number of times, produce a number or set of numbers that approximate the actual solution of the equation or set of equations. For example, since k is transcendental, it has no finite decimal representation. Using English mathematician Brook Taylor s series for the arctangent, however, one can easily find an approximation of 7t to any number of digits. One can also do an error analysis of this approximation hy looking at the tail of the series and see how closely the approximation came to the exact solution. 

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Another feature seen in the data of Figure 2.1 is the saturation of flie actual relative error at a value of about 2e-16 as seen for terms beyond around the 15 term. It can be seen that this is very close to the maehine epsilon as previously given in Eq. (2.1). This is just one of the manifestations of limits due to the intrinsic numerical accuracy of number representations in any numerieal eomputer calculation. Although the value of each computer eorreetive term eontinues to decrease as shown in the figure, there is no improvement in the accuracy of the computed results. The eonelusion is that it is fruitless to try to obtain a relative accuracy of computed results better than the intrinsic machine epsilon, or another way of expressing it is that numerieal answers can not be obtained to an accuracy of better than about 15 digits. 

The ROSDAL syntax is characterized by a simple coding of a chemical structure using alphanumeric symbols which can easily be learned by a chemist [14]. In the linear structure representation, each atom of the structure is arbitrarily assigned a unique number, except for the hydrogen atoms. Carbon atoms are shown in the notation only by digits. The other types of atoms carry, in addition, their atomic symbol. In order to describe the bonds between atoms, bond symbols are inserted between the atom numbers. Branches are marked and separated from the other parts of the code by commas [15, 16] (Figure 2-9). The ROSDAL linear notation is rmambiguous but not unique. 

Rather than being defined by lengthy explicit listings of their local action, rules are instead conventionally identified by a compact code. If the bottom eight binary digits of the r = 1 mod 2 rule in the example cited above are interpreted as the binary representation of a decimal number, then the code, i [ 2], is given by that base-10 equivalent ... 

Xo is Irrational Using the same argument as given above, orbits for irrational Xq must be nonperiodic, with the attractor in this case being the entire interval. Because any finite sequence of digits appears infinitely many times within the binary decimal representation of almost all irrational numbers in [0,1] (all except for a set of measure zero), the orbit of almost all irrationals approaches any x G [0,1] to within a distance e << 1 an infinite number of times i.e., the Bernoulli shift is ergodic. 

Generally speaking, the outcome of any digital computation is a set of numbers in machine representation. Often the problem as originally formulated mathematically is to obtain a function defined over some domain, but the computation itself can give only (approximations to) a finite number of its functional values, or a finite number of coefficients in an expansion, or some other form of finite representation. At any rate, each number y in the finite set of numbers explicitly sought can be thought of, or perhaps even explicitly represented as, some function of the input data x ... 

Ti = 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 Is it really true that we all live happy lives, coded in the endless digits of 7c I believe so, although many people have debated me on this subject. Recall that the digits of n (in any base) not only go on forever but seem to behave statistically like a sequence of uniform random numbers. In short, //the digits of n are normally distributed, somewhere inside n s string of digits is a very close representation for all of us. 

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