Assignment: Locate and Review a Recent Article on a Mathematical/Computational Model
Scientists and engineers are comping up with new ways of modeling the real world all the time. Locate a recent (no older than 5 years) scholarly peer-reviewed article that deals with the creation and testing of a mathematical or computational model for some real world phenomenon (e.g., waiting in line at the grocery store). Write a short summary of the article in which you answer the following questions:
Scientific Computing
• What problem were the authors trying to solve? In other words, what was going wrong that the mathematical/computational model will help the authors address?
• How was the model built? What were its parameters and limitations?
• How was the model tested and evaluated?
• What were the results and conclusions?
• What are the logical next steps in the research?
For this assignment, you will use a programming language of your choice to demonstrate how a lack of precision in floating point numbers can lead to incorrect results. Do the following:
• Determine two sequences of floating point mathematical operations that should yield the same result (e.g., 1.0 + 1.0 = 2.0 and 3.0 - 1.0 = 2.0).
• In a programming language of your choice, perform those operations and store the results in two variables.
• Check the variables for equivalence. If the computer determines they are equal, repeat the process with different (more complex) sequences of operations until you have two variables that should be equal in value, but the computer determines that they are not due to truncation or round-off.
Original work and assistance received from any source and any references used must be authorized and proper
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.