Lloyd N. Trefethen – Communications of the ACM

Research and Advances Oct 1 2015

Computing Numerically with Functions Instead of Numbers

We present the Chebfun system for numerical computation with functions, which is based on a key idea: an analogy of floating-point arithmetic for functions rather than numbers.

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