From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fedc2d05e82c9174 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Calculating SQRT in ADA Date: 1999/03/27 Message-ID: <7dhjhi$27a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 459572971 References: <7dbv6t$4u5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <19990324201959.00800.00000708@ngol04.aol.com> <7dei9a$dvo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x1.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Mar 27 03:33:06 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-03-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote: > Your faith in library routines is touching :-) I have *far* more faith in library routines than in math routines cooked up by programmers who do not know how to compute elementary functions! I must say that in a *lot* of experience, I have never seen a library sqrt function that was bad. As I said, this is a particularly easy one (that does not mean it cannot be messed up by people whose knowledge of numerical algorithms is minimal :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own