Just a two or three years ago (no need to check) I was in college taking computer science courses, and I encountered CS 375 (I think). This was the undergraduate computational mathematics course, and it was taught by a doctoral student.
A large part of the class was about how to calculate (or bound) the errors in computations. It involved things like the condition number of matrices, and I recall thinking the material was so boring!!! In fact, I had a really hard time getting into the class… and got the only bad grade I ever got in a computer science course (but I did pass).
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