An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.

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Numerical analysis is the branch of mathematics devoted to the study of algorithms for the approximate solution of problems that often have no closed‐form answer. At its core, numerical analysis seeks ...