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Round-Off, Batting Averages, and Ill-Conditioning

by Edward Rozema (University of Tennessee)

This article originally appeared in:
College Mathematics Journal
September, 1994

Subject classification(s): Analysis | Numerical Analysis
Applicable Course(s): 4.17 Numerical Analysis

The importance of round-off errors, ill-conditioned systems, and interval analysis in the context of baseball statistics


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