Poor Man's Euclidean Norm

Calculus Level 4

Suppose you have two numbers, A A and B B , where A > B > 0 A > B > 0 . The expression for the Euclidean norm of these two numbers is shown below:

Euclidean norm = A 2 + B 2 \sqrt{A^{2}+B^{2}}

Suppose we would like to approximate this using an even simpler expression, as shown below:

Approximate Euclidean norm = A + A+ 1 2 \frac{1}{2} B B

What is the maximum percentage error that this approximation can introduce?


The answer is 11.8.

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Steven Chase
Jul 16, 2016

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