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  • Acta Numerica, Volume 6
  • 1997, pp. 523-551

Complexity theory and numerical analysis

  • Steve Smale (a1)
  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0962492900002774
  • Published online: 01 November 2008
Abstract

Complexity theory of numerical analysis is the study of the number of arithmetic operations required to pass from the input to the output of a numerical problem.

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