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Figure 3: The effect of the amount of information on error in numeric computations.

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590

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Figure 3: The effect of the amount of information on error in numeric computations.

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truncation error rounding error systematic error random error mathematics foundations of mathematics probability and statistics numerals and numeral systems matrix function fractal graph derivative algorithm vector

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Augustin-Louis Cauchy

French mathematician