This tag is for questions concerning problems using numbers which either cannot be exactly solved, or where the exact solution may be much more difficult to acquire than by using numerical methods.
I have a column of numbers stored as chars. When I do a ORDER BY for this column I get …
sql char type-conversion sql-order-by numericalI know a little bit about how floating-point numbers are represented, but not enough, I'm afraid. The general question is: …
floating-point precision numerical ieee-754How do I type a floating point infinity literal in python? I have heard inf = float('inf') is non portable. …
python floating-point portability numericalI was wondering if it is possible to convert numbers into their corresponding alphabetical value. So 1 -> a 2 -&…
python python-3.x numerical alphabeticalI need to know if a number compared to a set of numbers is outside of 1 stddev from the mean, …
c# math statistics numericalSo I have an array of say 25 samples and I would want to be able to note the trends of …
algorithm statistics real-time signal-processing numericalI know power of 2 can be implemented using << operator. What about power of 10? Like 10^5? Is there any way …
c++ numericalI have some expressions such as x^2+y^2 that I'd like to use for some math calculations. One of the …
c++ c math numerical symbolic-mathIs there an open-source alternative to MATLAB's fmincon function for constrained linear optimization? I'm rewriting a MATLAB program to use …
python matlab numpy numerical scientific-computingI know it's an odd question, but does JavaScript have the capacity to work with double's as opposed to single …
javascript floating-point numerical double-precision