The next morning, Dr. Vargas didn’t ask about the homework. Instead, she wrote on the board: “Numerical methods are about failing efficiently.”

His pencil hovered. The room was silent except for the hum of his ancient laptop fan. He looked at his own attempt—scratched out over three pages. He had inverted the matrix wrong on iteration two. That’s why it diverged.

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