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- ; Some extremely badly conditioned problems.
- ; These cannot be solved accurately without using higher precision
- ; than what Mercury uses.
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- ; Mercury fails, but at least it doesn't give wrong answers.
- ; Reference: U. W. Kulisch, W. L. Miranker, SIAM Review (March 1986).
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- ; The true answer is a = 12345678912345,
- ; but an enormous cancellation makes it difficult to calculate.
- a = 12345678912345*9876543219876 - 12345678912345*9876543219875
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- ; a very nearly singular linear system
- 64919121 *x - 159018721*y = 1
- 41869520.5*x - 102558961*y = 0
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