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Line 37: [[Computer]]s are an essential tool in numerical analysis, but the field predates computers by many centuries, and actually computers were invented to a large extent in order to solve numerical problems, not the other way around. [[Taylor series\|Taylor approximation]] is a product of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that is still very important. The [[logarithm]]s of the sixteenth century are no longer vital to numerical analysis, but the associated and even prehistoric notion of [[interpolation]] continues to solve problems for us. [[Floating point number]] representations are used extensively in modern computers: for many problems, their behavior can be unexpected, unless care is taken using numerical analysis to ensure that they will not misbehave. ==Problem Taxonomy==

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