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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Ada routine to compute Internal Rate Of Return
Date: 1998/12/09
Date: 1998-12-09T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <366ef5e9.13971466@news.pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 366EC73C.1BF26A8E@pwfl.com

Do you have a polynomial zero finder about?
As for speed, for realistic projects you can probably make a pretty
good initial guess, and for the real world your coefficients are such
guesses that it's not worth computing to much accuracy.
(And NPV is a better indicator than IRR anyway.)




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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-12-09  0:00 Ada routine to compute Internal Rate Of Return Marin David Condic
1998-12-09  0:00 ` Tom Moran [this message]
1998-12-10  0:00   ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-10  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1998-12-10  0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-12-10  0:00   ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-11  0:00   ` dennison
1998-12-12  0:00 ` Al Christians
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