Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "computers suck at division (a painful discovery)" video.

  1. If you study computer science, you will eventually take a class called "Numerical Analysis" where you discover that computers aren't terribly good at floating point math either, and while they do fine for day to day calculations but when it comes to non-linear calculations or complex simulation, and that the errors compound making some classes of problems not just off slightly, but completely wrong.. Methods such as Euler, Improved Euler and Runge-Kutta are the basic methods use to improve accuracy.
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