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From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: Generic_Roots
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:36:44 -0500
Date: 2008-11-07T08:36:44-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nospam-3AAED7.08364307112008@news.motzarella.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gf0562$pr2$1@jacob-sparre.dk

In article <gf0562$pr2$1@jacob-sparre.dk>,
 "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

> "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote 
[...]
> > <http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmatthews/misc/groots.html>
[...]

> Umm, AI95-0356 is "Support for Preemption Level Locking Policy".
> 
> You mean AI95-0346 "Roots of polynomials".

Yes, thank you! I've corrected the reference and added links to the CVS.

> You might want to pass this implementation past John Barnes, as he was the 
> original proposer of that AI.

Ah, I see now that he was the initial author. In the implementation 
advice, he suggested "using established techniques such as Laguerre's 
method." My implementation is definitely experimental, but it's a 
convenient alternative. My test cases are limited, so I'd be interested 
to hear of any anomalies. Of course, I expect most users are using BLAS.

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmatthews/



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2008-11-01 17:47 Generic_Roots John B. Matthews
2008-11-07  1:20 ` Generic_Roots Randy Brukardt
2008-11-07 13:36   ` John B. Matthews [this message]
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