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I don't like being pushed to use obscure (but more stable) algorhithm over algorithm everyone instantly recognises.
Said that, I could live with it. But I want to point that:
- link for "What Every Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" is dead;
- one can google for it, but formatting is different, so how to find what "page 9" actually is?
- quoted in the text, "Suggested by Middlebrook (D-OA), a better numerical method: to define two parameters q=sqr(ac)/b (...)" naturally fails over if a>0 and c<0.
"do it better" ?
I clearly see come of programs (Ada, and some marked as "translation of Ada") use
(b^2-4ac)/2*a,
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