Fixed-point computation refers to the process of computing an exact or approximate fixed point of a given function. In its most common form, the given...
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contrasted to the more complicated and computationally demanding floating-point representation. In the fixed-point representation, the fraction is often...
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In combinatory logic for computer science, a fixed-point combinator (or fixpoint combinator): p.26 is a higher-order function (i.e., a function which...
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In mathematics, a fixed point (sometimes shortened to fixpoint), also known as an invariant point, is a value that does not change under a given transformation...
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Brouwer's fixed-point theorem is a fixed-point theorem in topology, named after L. E. J. (Bertus) Brouwer. It states that for any continuous function f...
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was actually introduced by a fixed-point computation, but the underlying issue would have been the same with floating-point arithmetic. Salami slicing is...
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In mathematics, the Banach fixed-point theorem (also known as the contraction mapping theorem or contractive mapping theorem or Banach–Caccioppoli theorem)...
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the number of queries is given. List of root finding algorithms Fixed-point computation Broyden's method – Quasi-Newton root-finding method for the multivariable...
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In numerical analysis, fixed-point iteration is a method of computing fixed points of a function. More specifically, given a function f {\displaystyle...
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Knaster–Tarski theorem (redirect from Tarski's fixed-point theorem)
search. On the other hand, determining whether a given fixed point is unique is computationally hard: For d=2, for componentwise lattice and a value-oracle...
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In mathematical logic, fixed-point logics are extensions of classical predicate logic that have been introduced to express recursion. Their development...
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point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations that...
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Real RAM (redirect from Arithmetic model of computation)
that can compute with exact real numbers instead of the binary fixed-point or floating-point numbers used by most actual computers. The real RAM was formulated...
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Floating-point error mitigation is the minimization of errors caused by the fact that real numbers cannot, in general, be accurately represented in a fixed space...
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mathematics, the theory of computation is the branch that deals with what problems can be solved on a model of computation, using an algorithm, how efficiently...
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theory, the Kleene fixed-point theorem, named after American mathematician Stephen Cole Kleene, states the following: Kleene Fixed-Point Theorem. Suppose...
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representation of a number is fixed (fixed-point, floating-point and interval arithmetic), the main concern is to control the computational error, as far as possible;...
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{\displaystyle f} is computationally expensive. Anderson acceleration is a method to accelerate the convergence of the fixed-point sequence. Define the...
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Omega constant (section Fixed point representation)
converge to Ω as n approaches infinity. This is because Ω is an attractive fixed point of the function e−x. It is much more efficient to use the iteration Ω...
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In computational geometry, the point-in-polygon (PIP) problem asks whether a given point in the plane lies inside, outside, or on the boundary of a polygon...
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Kleene's recursion theorem (redirect from Rogers's fixed-point theorem)
fixed-point free. The fixed-point theorem shows that no total computable function is fixed-point free, but there are many non-computable fixed-point-free...
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which object a query ray intersects first. If the search space is fixed, the computational complexity for this class of problems is usually estimated by:...
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The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar, the Eastman plan or the Yearal) was a proposed reform of the...
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Sperner's lemma (category Fixed-point theorems)
invariance of domain. Sperner colorings have been used for effective computation of fixed points and in root-finding algorithms, and are applied in fair division...
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and adding 1). However, while the number of binary bits is fixed throughout a computation it is otherwise arbitrary. Unlike the ones' complement scheme...
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Secure multi-party computation (also known as secure computation, multi-party computation (MPC) or privacy-preserving computation) is a subfield of cryptography...
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Applied general equilibrium (category Fixed points (mathematics))
Scarf's fixed-point method was a break-through in the mathematics of computation generally, and specifically in optimization and computational economics...
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process applied to fixed-point iteration. Viewed in this way, Steffensen's method naturally generalizes to efficient fixed-point calculation in general...
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available for arbitrary-precision integer and floating-point math. Rather than storing values as a fixed number of bits related to the size of the processor...
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Zone diagram (section Zone diagram as a fixed point)
Asano, Jiří Matoušek, and Takeshi Tokuyama in 2007. Formally, it is a fixed point of a certain function. Its existence or uniqueness are not clear in advance...
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