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After having seen so many different methods and ideas in the foregoing sections, it is legitimate to study how all these theoretical properties pay off in numerical efficiency.
Theory without practice cannot survive and dies as quickly as it lives.
(Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519, cited from M. Kline, Math. Thought 1972, p. 224)
Sine experientia nihil sufficienter scrire potest (Without experience it is not possible to know anything adequately).
(Inscription overlooking Botanic Garden, Oxford; found in The Latin Citation Calendar, Oxford 1996)
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Hairer, E., Wanner, G. (1996). Numerical Experiments. In: Solving Ordinary Differential Equations II. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05221-7_10
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