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- From: edp@math.zko.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: Hp48 and TI85 compared
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.194046.18799@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 19:40:46 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.210022.15328@utagraph.uta.edu> <1992Aug20.023308.6024@unixg.ubc.ca> <1992Aug20.155413.21319@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Reply-To: edp@math.zko.dec.com (Eric Postpischil)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <1992Aug20.155413.21319@unixg.ubc.ca>, george@unixg.ubc.ca
- (George chow) writes:
-
- >If you mean that you can formulate the system as Ax = b where A is a matrix
- >and x and b are vectors and just invert A, then no, that's not a feature.
- >Matrix inversion isn't a stable operation (just crack open your linear algebra
- >text).
-
- What about << b A / >>? The 48 probably executes that operation with
- something better than inversion followed by multiplication.
-
- >
- >Hmmm... I must have missed something from reading my HP's manual. How do you
- >get an error bound from the HP on your integral?
-
- After an integration, an error estimate is in global variable IERR.
-
-
- -- edp (Eric Postpischil)
- "Always mount a scratch monkey."
- edp@alien.enet.dec.com
-