My understanding is that the principal motivation for the Blum Shub Smale model of computability is precisely the kind of concern you raise in your question. The dynamicists wanted a theoretical model of computability that would avoid the effects such as round-off error that had plagued a discrete computational implementation of a continuous algorithm. The BSS model is provably different from the model of computable analysis.
Joel David Hamkins
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