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October 2015
From Communications of the ACM
Technical Perspective: Not Just a Matrix Laboratory Anymore
Mathematics is not difficult to find in Chebfun, the subject of "Computing Numerically with Functions Instead of Numbers."
From Communications of the ACM
Computing Numerically with Functions Instead of Numbers
We present the Chebfun system for numerical computation with functions, which is based on a key idea: an analogy of floating-point arithmetic for functions rather than numbers.