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(I-SEMESTER, 2014-2015) Lecturer: Harish Kumar Tutorial 1

This document provides instructions for a numerical methods tutorial. It includes 7 exercises involving MATLAB programs and numerical computations related to floating point representation, rounding errors, derivative approximations, and numerical integration. Students are instructed to download 3 MATLAB files to use for the exercises, and modify existing programs to improve accuracy and analyze errors from rounding and sampling. The tutorial aims to demonstrate sources of error in numerical computations.

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(I-SEMESTER, 2014-2015) Lecturer: Harish Kumar Tutorial 1

This document provides instructions for a numerical methods tutorial. It includes 7 exercises involving MATLAB programs and numerical computations related to floating point representation, rounding errors, derivative approximations, and numerical integration. Students are instructed to download 3 MATLAB files to use for the exercises, and modify existing programs to improve accuracy and analyze errors from rounding and sampling. The tutorial aims to demonstrate sources of error in numerical computations.

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MAL230: NUMERICAL METHODS AND COMPUTATION

(I-SEMESTER, 2014-2015)
LECTURER: HARISH KUMAR
TUTORIAL 1
See attached le matlab.zip in the mail. You have three le namely,
derivative_error.m, roundc.m and roundoff_errors_in_sampling.m. Download these les and
go through them. We have already discussed them in class. They will be useful in the following
exercises.
1. (a) Use the 64-bit long real format to nd the decimal equivalent of the following oating-point
binary machine number:
0 10000000011 1011100100010000000000000000000000000000000000000000
1 10000000101 1011100100000001000000000000000000000000000000000000
0 10000000001 1000101100010000000000000000000000000000000000000000
(b) Find the next largest and smallest machine numbers in decimal form for the number given in
1(a).
2. Consider a generic binary number
x = (1.d
1
d
2
d
t
d
t+1
)2
e
(a) What is the absolute and relative errors if f
1
(x) is chopped value of x after t digits.
(b) What is the absolute and relative errors if f
2
(x) is rounded value of x after t digits.
(c) Prove and discuss your results.
3. Write a MATLAB program that takes input a number x (or array of numbers) and a param-
eter n. Output is chopped value (or array) of x up to n digits.
Hint: Modify roundc.m
4. Remember the discussion about the approximation of derivative of sin(x) in derivative_error.m
in class. We used the following formula to approximate derivative:
f

(x) =
f(x + h) f(x)
h
.
One can easily see using Taylor expansion that f

can be approximated more accurately using,


f

(x) =
f(x + h) f(x 1)
2h
.
Modify derivative_error.m to implement this. Compare the result with the previous formula
and Justify your comments.
5. In general MATLAB uses 64-bit representation. Use Exercise 2 to nd out a upper bound
on the roundo error committed by this approximation.
6. Using roundc.m modify the computation in derivative_error.m so that all the oating point
operations are accurate upto 5 digits rounding o only. Compare the results with the one
without this round o. Plot the errors and Explain the behavior of the error curve.
1
2 (I-SEMESTER, 2014-2015) LECTURER: HARISH KUMAR TUTORIAL 1
7. Consider the evaluation of integral:
y
n
=

1
0
x
n
x + 10
dx.
(a) Prove that
y
0
= ln(11) ln(10), y
n
=
1
n
10y
n1
Use it to compute y
n
for n = 1, , 30. Note that in theory |y
n
| 1 n. Discuss and analyze
your results. Is this algorithms stable with respect to round o errors of MATLAB . If not
then explain.
Webpage: https://hkkaushik.wordpress.com/courses/mal230/
Lecturer: Harish Kumar ([email protected])
Tutorial Teacher: Asha
Date: 6th Aug, 2014
Exercises Due Date: No Submission Required.

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