Questions tagged [numerical-methods]
Algorithms which solve mathematical problems by means of numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic computation).
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Monte Carlo pi animation
I have created a program that calculates pi using a Monte Carlo method. It also animates the process and displays the value as it is updated to show how it gets closer and closer to the actual value ...
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Monte Carlo errors estimation routine
I would value your opinion on the following piece of code. I am rather new to both Python and Monte Carlo analysis, so I was wondering whether the routine makes sense to more experienced and ...
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Java Pi Calculation using an Averaged-Leibniz formula
While trying to discover a way to calculate the digits of Pi faster with the Leibniz formula for Pi, I noticed that, if I took two consecuent numbers in the series, and calculate their average, I ...
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C++ Pi Calculator - Leibniz Formula
Yesterday I saw a CodeTrain video in where Daniel Shiffman tried to approximate Pi using the Leibniz series. It was interesting so I decided to try it too.
I wrote this console application with a ...
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A simple clusterness measure of data in one dimension using Java
Problem definition
Given \$X = (x_1, \dots, x_n)\$ such that \$x_1 \leq x_2 \leq \dots \leq x_n \$. Let \$x_{\min} = \min X = x_1\$, \$x_{\max} = \max X = x_n\$ and \$r = x_{\max} - x_{\min}\$. Also, ...
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Polynomial implementation in Golang
I am writing a numerical analysis library in golang for which I need to implement a polynomial struct. Here is the source code:
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Simulating a two-body collision problem to find digits of Pi
I came across a nice video on 3Blue1Brown's channel that highlights a very indirect way to find the digits in Pi. I'd suggest watching the whole video, but briefly:
The setup is as above. A "small" ...
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Discrete Lanczos Derivatives
I have a PR implementing denoising discrete Lanczos derivatives, following this paper. The following code works well, but the design is a train wreck, and I was hoping to get some advice to improve it....
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A collection of vector functionals
I would like some feedback for a collection of what I call "vector functionals", by which I mean maps \$\ell\colon \mathbb{K}^{n} \to \mathbb{K}\$, where the field \$\mathbb{K} = \mathbb{R}\$ or \$\...
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Complex Newton's Method
I'm trying to build a complex Newton's method. I've submitted a PR here, where you can see the documentation and tests, as well as get a compiling example. I'd appreciate y'alls help reducing the ...
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Bisection and Newton's method for finding a root of an equation
In an attempt to learn Rust, I've written up implementations of the bisection method and Newton's method for finding roots of an equation. Both methods come in two variants: the first one searches for ...
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Metropolis Monte Carlo Sampler in Rust
the following is an implementation of the standard Metropolis Hastings Monte Carlo sampler. You can read more about it here.
At the end I am going to give you a link to the Rust playground, so you ...
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Verilog implementation of trapezoidal integration method
Any and all comments are welcome in this review.
Problem
I've been doing a lot with numerical integration methods recently and have mostly been programming in Python. But...speedups! And FPGAs are ...
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Implementing numerical integration in Python
I have this Python code that implements a rectangular numerical integration. It evaluates the (K-1)-dimensional integral for arbitrary integer \$K \geq 1\$
$$\int_{u_K = 0}^{\gamma}\int_{u_{K-1} = 0}^...
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Implementing numerical integration
I have this C++ code that implements a rectangular numerical integration. It evaluates the \$K\$-dimensional integral
$$\int_{u_K = 0}^{\gamma}\int_{u_{K-1} = 0}^{\gamma-u_K}\cdots\int_{u_2}^{\...
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Bisection to find roots in C++
I have written a short C/C++ code finding root by bisection. (This is a simple iterative numerical method allowing to find the root of an equation i.e. x such that f(x) = 0). Bisection Method
The ...
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2d linear Partial Differential Equation Solver using finite differences
This is code that solves partial differential equations on a rectangular domain using partial differences. fd_solve takes an equation, a partially filled in output, ...
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Compute PI in Kotlin on a T-shirt
I have written code in Kotlin with the objective of computing Pi in few enough lines so that it looks good on a t-shirt.
Can be cut and paste into http://try.kotlinlang.org under "My Programs" and ...
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Calculating Maclaurin series for sin(x)
I'm very new to Haskell as was hoping to get some feedback on my code AND I have some specific questions. I've posted code below or you can see it here.
I'd welcome ideas on how better to calculate ...
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Definite Integral Approximation using the Trapezoidal Method
I wrote a program to calculate the value of Definite Integral of a function from a to b. It used the trapezoidal approximation ...
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Numerical integration with Numba
I'm a bit new to working with Numba, but I got the gist of it. I wonder if there any more advanced tricks to make four nested for loops even faster that what I have ...
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A single function for implementing Newton forward and backward polynomial interpolation
On various websites, I've come across a lot of realizations of Newton polynomial interpolation that use separate functions for forward and backward interpolation, respectively. Such solutions seem ...
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Compute a numerical derivative
Since I could not get numpy.gradient() to compute a derivative successfully, I wrote a script to compute it manually. Running the script below will output a plot of ...
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Complex multiplication and integration with CUDA
I want to perform multiplication on two vectors and integrate it in a vector called acc_y. The acc_y variable will update over ...
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Approximating constant π² to within error
This function takes as input float error and approximates constant π² to within error by computing this sum, term by term, until the difference between the new and the previous sum is less than error. ...
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Runge-Kutta Fourth Order in C
I've found that the Runge-Kutta (4th order) calculations in some software I wrote are the bottleneck. Is there anything obvious I can do to improve efficiency here?
Note that Compiler optimizations ...
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Computing an approximate value of Pi via Monte Carlo method in Java with streams
I have this short program that attempts to compute an approximate value of \$\pi\$:
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Numeric double integration
I've made a simple program for numerically aproximating double integral, which accepts that the bounds of the inner integral are functions:
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Quasi-Random Number Generators
I would like to communicate a piece of code which I hope will soon be broadly useful for everyone who programs in C++: A set of quasi-random number generators proposed for addition to boost.random. To ...
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Numerical Differentiation by Finite Differences
Numerical differentiation is known to be ill-conditioned unless using a Chebyshev series, but this requires global information about the function and a priori knowledge of a compact domain on which ...
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Numerical differentiation on sphere with Python
I have ported from Fortran to Python an algorithm that calculates the numerical derivative along the x direction (longitudinal) of a scalar function s on a ...
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Multithreaded Monte-Carlo Integration
I have a PR implementing multithreaded naive Monte-Carlo integration here. My requirements for the class are the following:
It should support progress reporting, ETA, and graceful cancellation.
It ...
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Computing the improper integral of several functions
How can I optimize and make prettier the following code?
Main.cpp
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Newton's algorithm for a polynomial of arbitary degree
Improvement over the last one I posted (now deleted, had no answers and was only cubics). Uses Horner's algorithm this time...
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Spectrum Analysis with Discrete Fourier Transform
Here is a simple implementation of the Discrete Fourier Transform:
myFourierTransform.m
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Finding the root of a function by Bisection Method
The program has to look for a root in an interval [a,b]. The root should be declared with a certain accuracy eps. I.e it should ...
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Hodgkin-Huxley model in C++
I'm fairly new to C++ and I want to simulate the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron model with it. I have used a MATLAB implementation before and I hope that the C++ code will be faster.
Both seem to take the ...
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Bisection method solver
I have a simple bisection method solver that I was told it has some problems in design and I need my code to be reviewed, so I was hoping for someone to give me guideline on how to improve my code.
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Computing the square root of a number using binary search
This is implemented in MIPS assembly.
I've hard-coded the initial guess, as I haven't figured out how to allow the user to input a negative or non-negative integer to then display the result back to ...
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Discrete random number generator in Python
Description: I am given a list of possible values, each of which have an associated probability of occurrence.
How could I improve the algorithm that randomly generates a value based on the given ...
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Python numerical integration
Could the time complexity of this definite integral algorithm be improved?
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Area under curve and its volume as solid of revolution
I would like to know if there is some more "elegant" way to write these 3 functions. Any tip or idea is welcome.
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Calculating pi to 7 significant figures without using Math.PI
I need to calculate pi to 7 significant figures in Java—without using Math.PI.
Here is the code I came up with to do that:
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Monte Carlo Simulation of P-Value
I'm testing Python 3 code to perform a Monte Carlo simulation based on the result of an statistical test.
I currently have the result of the statistical test in a pandas dataframe, like this.
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AVX assembly for fast atan2 approximation
I'm writing a fast atan2 approximation, and would like some feedback on my assembly in particular. I know one of the first things is that people will question why I'm using inline assembly instead of ...
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SICP - exercise 1.7 better end test for square root approximation
Here is exercise 1.7 from SICP:
Exercise 1.7
The good-enough? test used in computing square roots will not be very
effective for finding the square roots ...
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Runge-Kutta fourth order integration
I have written a simple code for Runge-Kutta fourth order integration to solve a system of ordinary differential equations and parallelized it using OpenMP. I don't know if it is the best we can do ...
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Monte Carlo simulation to approximate the value of PI
This is a C++ implementation of a simple Monte Carlo simulation to approximate the value of pi. The program uses the standard library Mersenne twister engine to generate two random numbers between -1....
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Calculate the closest point to many hyperbolic paraboloids
In this question I asked for a way to compute the closest projected point to a hyperbolic paraboloid using python.
Using the iterative approximation answer, I'm able to use the code below to ...
