Learning from 100 Numbers

The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge A Study in High-Accuracy Numerical Computing. By Folkmar Bornemann, Dirk Laurie, Stan Wagon, and Jörg Waldvogel. SIAM Press, Philadelphia, 2004. 318 pp. $57. ISBN 0-89871-561-X. The authors discuss a range of clever algorithms and mathematical machinery for efficient computation that they used to solve the 10 problems posed for a 2002 contest.