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There are only finite many numbers in a computer. These are the so-called floating-point numbers:
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G. E. Forsythe, M. A. Malcolm, and C. B. Moler. Computer Methods for Mathematical Computations. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977.
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Tyrtyshnikov, E.E. (1997). Lecture 6. In: A Brief Introduction to Numerical Analysis. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8136-4_6
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