The "mindless" paper from William Kahan has a nice discussion of roundoff errors: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wk

The "mindless" paper from William Kahan has a nice discussion of roundoff errors: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf The ~wkahan path has more papers.