Root finding:
- bisection
- newton
- secant
- matlab how to find roots? what to do with multiple roots?
- what are the problems/benefits with the discussed methods?
- Convergence: f(x_k) == f(x_{k-1}) versus |x_k - x_{k-1}| < smallvalue
[no detailed question about converngece rate]

Error:
-absolute error
-relative error
-Taylor series
-Truncation error
-Rounding error
-Machine precision problem
-storing/retrieving an integer (binary)
-storing/retrieving a float (binary mantissa notation)
-overflow/underflow (realmin, Inf etc)
-denormal


Matlab:
- syntax: for while if
- functions
- anonymous functions
- function handles
- commenting
- precedence of operators
- vector, matrix creation and changing
- basic linear algebra
- help system on matlab