- An
approximation is
anything that is
intentionally similar but not
exactly equal to
something else. The word
approximation is
derived from
Latin approximatus...
- mathematics, Stirling's
approximation (or Stirling's formula) is an
asymptotic approximation for factorials. It is a good
approximation,
leading to accurate...
-
Rational approximation may
refer to:
Diophantine approximation, the
approximation of real
numbers by
rational numbers Padé
approximation, the
approximation of...
-
expansion used in the
approximation. The expressions: a zeroth-order
approximation, a first-order
approximation, a second-order
approximation, and so
forth are...
- In
models of
radiative transfer, the two-stream
approximation is a
discrete ordinate approximation in
which radiation propagating along only two discrete...
- A
minimax approximation algorithm (or L∞
approximation or
uniform approximation) is a
method to find an
approximation of a
mathematical function that...
- In the
mathematical theory of
artificial neural networks,
universal approximation theorems are
theorems of the
following form:
Given a
family of neural...
- pi
include Pi
Approximation Day on July 22 (22/7 in the day/month format,
another approximation of π) and June 28 (6.28, an
approximation of 2π or tau)...
-
Approximations for the
mathematical constant pi (π) in the
history of
mathematics reached an
accuracy within 0.04% of the true
value before the beginning...
- can be
calculated with
reasonable accuracy by the
following simple approximations: sin θ ≈ tan θ ≈ θ , cos θ ≈ 1 − 1 2 θ 2 ≈ 1 , {\displaystyle...
