We are all familiar with this last name and the famous extrapolation method that takes his name used to improve the rate of convergence of a sequence. What we didn’t study and probably never will are his other important contributions to humanity, which I consider worth to talk about for common knowledge.
Lewis Fry Richardson wasn’t […]

As all you know 2008 is a leap year. This led me to think about the most used and common rounding error: the rounding of the number of days in a year. The current standard calendar in most of the world is the Gregorian calendar, which establishes that the year is 365.2425 days long. Using […]