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Testing Roundoff

A talk has been circulating (HT: Hacker News) from a conference celebrating 50 years of scientific computing at Stanford where the author, William Kahan, discusses an old and sadly disused trick for...

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Stopping your program at the first floating point error

If you know that somewhere in your program, there lurks a catastrophic numerical bug that puts NaNs or Infs into your results and you want to know where it first happens, the search can be a little...

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