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The topic is rather specialized and the main goal is just to have you aware of the “leaky abstraction” of computer numbers as simulations of mathematical numbers, and common situations where this can casue problems. Once you are aware of these areas, you can either avoid them using simple rules, or look for an apprpriate numerical library fuctionn to use instead. So there will be no exericses on the topic of computer arithmetic, conditioning and stability given.

Instead, you need to get as comforatble with the use of arrays in numpy as much as possible for the rest of the course. For practice, see the entertaining examples and exercises at

Nicolas P. Rougier’s numpy tutorial

At the end, there are further links to yet more numpy tutorials!