Approximations and Round Off -Errors in computation: Error definitions, Round-Offerrors, Truncation errors and the Taylor series-The Taylor series, Error Propagation, Total numerical error,Absolute,Relative and percentage errors,Blunders, Formulation errors and data uncertainty. Roots of equations: Simple fixed point iteration methods. Secant Method, Muller’s method, and Graeffe’s Roots Squaring Method. Aitkin’s Method.