You can not believe everything you read on the 'net :-)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherlock, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008 13:31 Subject: [Jprogramming] Roots robustness? To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > The following wiki page has a section about Roots. > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Phrases/Polynomials > > It suggests that Roots (in a previous version of J?) was "not > extremely robust" and gives the following example. > > p.1 5e4 1 > |limit error > | p.1 50000 1 > > However in J6.02 that same sentence runs fine. > p.1 5e4 1 > +-+------------+ > |1|_50000 _2e_5| > +-+------------+ > > I'm wondering whether the point on the wiki page is still valid > and just needs a different example, or whether Roots is now > robust enough that the warning is no longer required? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
