| Purpose: To enable students to understand and use numerical methods in solving scientific and mathematical problems that are difficult to solve analytically. It includes solutions of non-linear equations and systems of linear equations, interpolating polynomials, numerical integration and differentiation, and least-squares approximation. The module requires the use of a computer as a tool to carry out the extensive computations associated with the methods. Hence learners are introduced to the use of relevant computer software to find numerical solutions using various numerical algorithms.
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