Scientific Computation

Interactive Exercises

Gaston Gonnet and Ralf Scholl

Below you find the interactive exercises referenced in Scientific Computation. They are organized by chapters in which they appear.

1 Determination of the accurate location of an aircraft	Least squares Measurement Quality control Milky Way (Supplementary)
2 When to replace equipment
3 Secondary structure prediction using least squares and singular value decomposition	Modeling SVD SVD - a concrete example
4 Secondary structure prediction using least squares and best basis	Best basis Population
5 Secondary structure prediction with learning methods (nearest neighbors)	NN-Tree NN-Search
6 Secondary structure prediction with linear programming (LP)	Optimal transaction sequence
7 Stock market prediction	Optimal transaction sequence Prediction Optimal binary search tree Optimal routing (Supplementary)
8 Phylogenetic tree construction	Language Phylogenetic trees Phylogenetic trees 2 Parsimony Maximum Likelihood (Supplementary) Maximum Likelihood 2 (Supplementary) Countries (Supplementary)
Appendix A	Himalaya Approximation Approximation 2 Minimization Minimization 2 Minimization 3a Minimization 3b Spectral method
Appendix B

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