19th century math tactic gets a makeover -- and yields answers up to 200 times faster
Monday, June 30, 2014 - 20:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A relic from long before the age of supercomputers, the 169-year-old math strategy called the Jacobi iterative method is widely dismissed today as too slow to be useful. But thanks to a curious, numbers-savvy engineering student and his professor, it may soon get a new lease on life.