English Explanatory Dictionary

table-maker's dilemma

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The problem of the unknown cost of rounding transcendental functions.

Word forms

table-maker's dilemma the table-maker's dilemma

Etymology

Coined by William M. Kahan, in allusion to the construction of mathematical tables.

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