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Formal verification of exact computations using Newton's method
Nicolas Julien (Auteur à contacter de préférence , http://www-sop.inria.fr/marelle/Nicolas.Julien/) 1, Ioana Pasca () 1
(2009)
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Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics 5674 (2009) 408-423
We are interested in the certification of Newton's method. We use a formalization of the convergence and stability of the method done with the axiomatic real numbers of Coq's Standard Library in order to validate the computation with Newton's method done with a library of exact real arithmetic based on co-inductive streams. The contribution of this work is twofold. Firstly, based on Newton's method, we design and prove correct an algorithm on streams for computing the root of a real function in a lazy manner. Secondly, we prove that rounding at each step in Newton's method still yields a convergent process with an accurate correlation between the precision of the input and that of the result. An algorithm including rounding turns out to be much more efficient.
1 :  MARELLE (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
INRIA
Informatique/Calcul formel
formal verification – Newton's method – exact real arithmetic – co-recursive algorithms
10.1007/978-3-642-03359-9_28