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> isn't this kind of class a requirement for CS majors? I think most CS departments dropped numerical analysis from their requirements by the end of 1980s. Now
by sampo 8y ago
> isn't this kind of class a requirement for CS majors?
I think most CS departments dropped numerical analysis from their requirements by the end of 1980s. Nowadays you are more likely to find such a course in some dusty corner of math or engineering departments.
- vlovich123 8y agoMy university moved it from a 100 series course to a 200 series course but it's still being taught to ECE undergrads. The problem is more that we don't have the tools to track and understand how the errors are altered as we do the math (e.g. how would you even begin to try representing catastrophic cancellation at compile-time) and doing the numerical error analysis on the abstract math itself is hard once the math gets complex let alone trying to figure it out after you've optimized the code for performance & tweaked the algorithms for real-world data/discrete space. Now perhaps it could be possible to do it at runtime in some way but I suspect the performance of that is prohibitive to the point where arbitrary precision math or decimal numbers is going to be a better solution.