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Today, both fundamental and applied research relies heavily on computers. We recall that the numerical study of nonlinear models by means of these machines depends on programs, for the associative property of the multiplicative operator is lost. TheN-body problem is used to display the sensitivity to numerical accuracy.
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Colonna, JF. Kepler, von Neumann and God (More rounding-off error visualizations). The Visual Computer 12, 346–349 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01782232
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