c c Numerical Analysis: c The Mathematics of Scientific Computing c D.R. Kincaid & E.W. Cheney c Brooks/Cole Publ., 1990 c c Section 2.3 c c Example of numerical instability c c c file: instab.f c print * print *,' Numerical instability' print *,' Section 2.3, Kincaid-Cheney' print * print *,' n y(n)' c e = exp(1.0) y = 1.0 print 3,1,y c do 2 n=2,20 y = e - y*real(n) print 3,n,y 2 continue c 3 format (i3,2x,e13.6) stop end