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|    Richard Fateman to clicliclic@freenet.de    |
|    Re: useful to have    |
|    10 Apr 16 13:42:57    |
      From: fateman@cs.berkeley.edu              On 4/10/2016 10:06 AM, clicliclic@freenet.de wrote:       >              >>       >       > Polynomial may be ill-conditioned such that numerical root finders have       > severe difficulties locating some of the roots and placing error bounds       > on them.              I think that increasing the precision of the floating-point arithmetic       sufficiently solves all the difficulties (but not necessarily fast.)              It has been my experience that using a symbolic method when a numerical       method can do the job, has low payoff. Also, (I don't know about this       particular algorithm) it is sometimes the case that a "fast" algorithm       is not really fast, but only "asymptotically fast" for problems whose       size grows far beyond tasks of interest. Implementation and timing       are needed..              RJF              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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