Topics:

• Organizational details.
• What is scientific computing?
• An Ancient calculation of sqrt(2): Sumerian tablet YBC7289
• Working with various bases: Number Systems
• Simulated flow trajectoris during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. NOAA
• Supercomputing the climate NASA
• Patriot disaster GOA report
• Heron's Original paper Newton's Original paper Raphson's Original paper Newton's Method
• SARS-Cov-2 virus genome
• Floating Point Arithmetic Computer arithmetic

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