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This document contains a mathematics assignment with 4 questions: 1) Calculate errors in numerical approximations. 2) Discuss how to rearrange functions to avoid loss of significance errors. 3) Examine the propagation of error in operations involving approximated values. 4) Determine the order of approximation for the sum and product of two Taylor series expansions.

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Assignment 1 MATH344

This document contains a mathematics assignment with 4 questions: 1) Calculate errors in numerical approximations. 2) Discuss how to rearrange functions to avoid loss of significance errors. 3) Examine the propagation of error in operations involving approximated values. 4) Determine the order of approximation for the sum and product of two Taylor series expansions.

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Lahore University of Management Sciences

Department of Mathematics, SSE


MATH344: Numerical Computations
Assignment No. 1

Submission Date: Feb. 9, 2015


1). Calculate the error, relative error, and number of significant digits in the following
approximations
a). x = 28.254, x0 = 28.271
b). y = 0.028254, y 0 = 0.028271

c). z = 2, z 0 = 1.414
2). How can we rearrange the following functions in order to avoid the loss-of-significance
errors in the computations
(1 cos x)
x2
b). log(x + 1) logx, for x large.

c). x2 + 1 x
a).

3). Let p0 , q 0 and r0 be the approximations to p, q and r with the errors p , q and r
respectively. Discuss the propagation of error for the following
a). p + q + r = (p0 + p ) + (q 0 + q ) + (r0 + r )
b).

p
p0 + p
= 0
q
q + q

c). pqr = (p0 + p )(q 0 + q )(r0 + r )


4). Given the Taylors polynomial expansions
1
= 1 + h + h2 + h3 + h4 + O(h5 ),
1h
h2 h4
cos h = 1
+
+ O(h6 )
2!
4!
Determine the order of approximation for their sum and product.

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