Ever seen the numeric tower of lisp? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_tower
The link to the scheme documentation that goes over this is quite good.
The link to the scheme documentation that goes over this is quite good.
Honestly, most all older manuals and documents that were not related to systems programming seem to cover numeric programming decently enough. I get the impression that languages used to worry more about that sort of thing, but then the truly heavy lifting of numeric programming moved into the specialized domains of Matlab and friends, and then programmers slowly unlearned most of what was learned regarding numbers.