Monday, February 14, 2005

Fundamentals of Numbers

I am reading Numerical Analysis, a mathematical introduction by Michelle Schatzman. I found some really interesing questions for computer programmers and thought I would post them here followed by their answers in a short while. The questions are quite simple, but you learn more than you expect by answering them

Here is the first one

2 comments:

Sambit Kumar Dash said...

Looks like definition of existence of a polynomial. Interesting read.

Balbir said...

Yes, it is. Unfortunately, I had to return the book, I could not finish it.

Yes, it is an interesting problem and represents the basis of number representation using a base (hexadecimal, decimal, octal, etc).

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