Numerical calculations are just a part of the way we do science now. It isn't cheating, it's a legitimate method. If the results of the numerical calculation agree with actual data, then it works.

Here is an example of a numerical calculation for the motion of a mass on a spring. You can change the code and see what happens - you can be a programmer.

CSCI 5606: Principles of Numerical Computation. CSCI 5606: Principles of Numerical Computation. Instructor Fall 2019: Xiao-Chuan Cai Text book. David Kincaid and Ward Cheney, Numerical Analysis: ...

Numerical computation and mathematical software form the backbone of modern scientific inquiry, facilitating the approximation of real numbers, the solution of complex mathematical models, and the ...

Numerical computation tools that run on GNU/Linux platform such as Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora are a huge blessing for all mathematical computation ‘freaks', be it students or researchers.

Interval computation: A method for bounding errors by computing results as intervals that account for all possible rounding errors. Floating-Point Arithmetic and Numerical Computation Verification ...

TensorFlow is an open source software library developed by Google for numerical computation with data flow graphs. It offers tremendous opportunities for developers building machine learning into ...