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I don't like being pushed to use obscure (but more stable) algorhithm over algorithm everyone instantly recognises. |
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Said that, I could live with it. But I want to point that: |
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- link for "What Every Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" is dead; |
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- one can google for it, but formatting is different, so how to find what "page 9" actually is? |
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- 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. |
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"do it better" ? |
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I clearly see come of programs (Ada, and some marked as "translation of Ada") use |
I clearly see come of programs (Ada, and some marked as "translation of Ada") use |
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(b^2-4ac)/2*a, |
(b^2-4ac)/2*a, |
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