Error Analysis Examples

Numerical Analysis · Axiom Academy

EXAMPLE Error Analysis Worked Example Computing and analyzing absolute and relative errors Excellent! You've completed this error analysis example. Absolute error measures the raw difference: |true - approx| Relative error normalizes by the true value: |error|/|true| Significant digits ≈ -log₁₀(relative error) Relative error is usually more meaningful for comparing accuracy Practice computing errors with different values to build fluency!

This is the written version of the interactive lesson above. See the full Numerical Analysis course.