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Martin Gardner’s popular “Mathematical Games” column appeared monthly in Scientific American from January 1957 through December 1981. During those 25 years he entertained his readers with discussions of such topics as how to fold adding machine tape into hexaflexagons, John Conway’s Game of Life, and the discoveries of the mysterious numerologist Dr. Matrix. He inspired a generation of budding engineers, scientists, and mathematicians.
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Zachary, J.L. (1996). Stairway to Heaven: Accumulation of Roundoff Error. In: Introduction to Scientific Programming. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2366-5_4
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