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Lab 0. Preliminary: 1 Instructions

This document provides instructions for Lab 0 on numerical analysis. It outlines 3 key points: 1. Students should create a PDF report with solutions to the practice problems and submit all files in a compressed folder to Moodle. 2. The purposes of the lab are to apply floating point formatting and rounding arithmetic, and implement these concepts in Matlab. 3. The practice problems involve: calculating sums using 3-digit rounding, deriving an alternative formula for the quadratic equation, and creating Matlab functions to determine floating point formatting and accurately compute quadratic roots.

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Lab 0. Preliminary: 1 Instructions

This document provides instructions for Lab 0 on numerical analysis. It outlines 3 key points: 1. Students should create a PDF report with solutions to the practice problems and submit all files in a compressed folder to Moodle. 2. The purposes of the lab are to apply floating point formatting and rounding arithmetic, and implement these concepts in Matlab. 3. The practice problems involve: calculating sums using 3-digit rounding, deriving an alternative formula for the quadratic equation, and creating Matlab functions to determine floating point formatting and accurately compute quadratic roots.

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Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia

Numerical Analysis, 2020-1


Henry Arguello
October 28, 2020

Lab 0. Preliminary

1 Instructions
ˆ Make a pdf report including the solution to each point of the practice with name
Lab0 name lastname.pdf.
ˆ Send the report and all created files in a rar or zip file with name Lab0 name lastname.rar in
the Moodle.

ˆ You are allowed to use internet, notes, and .m files that you have created before.

2 Purposes
ˆ To apply the floating point format and rounding arithmetic.

ˆ To implement the floating point format and rounding arithmetic in Matlab.

3 Practice
3.1 Applying
ˆ (0.5 points) Use three-digit rounding arithmetic to compute the following sums:
P6 1
a) k=1 3k
P6 1
b) k=1 37−k

ˆ (1.0 points) Improving the Quadratic Formula. Assume that a 6= 0 and b2 − 4ac > 0 and
consider the equation ax2 + bx + c = 0. The roots can be computed with the quadratic
formulas √ √
−b + b2 − 4ac −b − b2 − 4ac
x1 = , x2 = . (1)
2a 2a
Show that these roots can be calculated with the equivalent formulas
−2c −2c
x1 = √ , x2 = √ . (2)
2
b + b − 4ac b − b2 − 4ac
√
Hint. Rationalize the numerators in (1). Remark. In the cases when |b| ≈ b2 − 4ac, one
must proceed with caution to avoid loss of precision due to a catastrophic cancellation. If
b > 0, then x1 should be computed with formula (2), and x2 should be computed using (1).
However, if b < 0, then x1 should be computed using (1), and x2 should be computed using
(2).

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3.2 Implementing
ˆ (2.0 points) Create a Matlab function called floating point function name lastname() to de-
termine the floating point format to stored decimal numbers in a computer with 32 bits of
precision. Use the following numbers to test your function:

a) 1612.07812510
b) 6317.913610
c) −962.015310

ˆ (1.5 points) Use the results obtained in Improving the Quadratic Formula to construct a Matlab
program that will accurately compute the√roots of a quadratic equation in all situations,
including the troublesome ones when |b| ≈ b2 − 4ac.

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