I didn't know there was a book, but here's a review of it: http://www.davidhbailey.com/dhbpapers/dhb-siam100-rev.pdf <http://www.davidhbailey.com/dhbpapers/dhb-siam100-rev.pdf> that is nice enough to repeat the challenge questions. (Looks as though the goal was 50 digits, not just 10.) —Dan
On Feb 9, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
On 09/02/2016 05:28, Dan Asimov wrote:
These problems were nothing like Putnam problems. They were mainly very hard problems in numerical analysis, to calculate various tricky things to something like 10 decimal places.
And they weren't aimed particularly at the makers of mathematical software, though of course lots of mathematical software was used to solve them.
The contest spawned a rather nice book, called "The SIAM 100-digit challenge", by Bornemann et al.