roundoff error accumulation

  • 1Rounding — This article is about numerical rounding. For lip rounding in phonetics, see Labialisation. For other uses, see Rounding (disambiguation). Rounding a numerical value means replacing it by another value that is approximately equal but has a… …

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  • 2Anti-aliasing — In digital signal processing, anti aliasing is the technique of minimizing the distortion artifacts known as aliasing when representing a high resolution signal at a lower resolution. Anti aliasing is used in digital photography, computer… …

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  • 3Spatial anti-aliasing — In digital signal processing, spatial anti aliasing is the technique of minimizing the distortion artifacts known as aliasing when representing a high resolution image at a lower resolution. Anti aliasing is used in digital photography, computer… …

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  • 4Algorithms for calculating variance — play a major role in statistical computing. A key problem in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow… …

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  • 5Kahan summation algorithm — In numerical analysis, the Kahan summation algorithm (also known as compensated summation) significantly reduces the numerical error in the total obtained by adding a sequence of finite precision floating point numbers, compared to the obvious… …

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