Richardson Extrapolation: The Power of the 2-gon.

Peter Lynch

Met Éireann, Dublin

Mathematics Today, 39, 5, 159-160.

ABSTRACT

Richardson's extrapolation procedure yields a significant increase in the accuracy of numerical solutions of differential equations. We consider his elegant illustration of the technique, the evaluation of π, and show how the estimates improve dramatically with higher order extrapolation.





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