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5 Numerical <strong>Programming</strong>in MapleFloating-Point CalculationsThe focus of this chapter is on how to perform floating-point calculationsin Maple. You can select from the following:• Software floating-point calculations of arbitrary precision – other thanspeed, independent of your computer• Hardware floating-point arithematic – precision determined by thearchitecture of your computer, but offers exceptional speedIn This Chapter• Basics of the evalf Command• Hardware Floating-Point Numbers• Foating-Point Models in Maple• Extending the evalf Command• Using the Matlab PackageWhy Use Numerical ComputationsRepresentation and manipulation of expressions in symbolic mode, interms of variables, functions, and exact constants, is a powerful feature ofthe Maple system. Practical scientific computation also demands floatingpointcalculations which represent quantities by approximate numericalvalues.Typically, numerical computations are used for one of three reasons.193

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