Tuesday 22 July 2014

19th Century Math Tactic Tweak Yields Answers 200 Times Faster

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19th Century Math Tactic Tweak Yields Answers 200 Times Faster
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 22, 2014 - A relic from long before the age of supercomputers, the 169-year-old math strategy called the Jacobi iterative method is widely dismissed today as too slow to be useful. But thanks to a curious, numbers-savvy Johns Hopkins engineering student and his professor, it may soon get a new lease on life. With just a few modern-day tweaks, the researchers say they've made the rarely used Jacobi me ... more


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