Richard E Maine wrote:
>
> Admittedly, computers have gotten fast enough that it has gotten hard
> for me to time the original version by hand, so these days I override
> its normal algorithm and tell it to use one that's bad enough that I
> can ask for 500 iterations and it will actually do that many instead of
> stopping after 4 or 5 because it has converged. :-)
so it spends all it's time computing near zero? If so, it sounds like
it's going to be pretty distorted in that few applications spend nearly
all of their time in underflow ;>
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