Re: continued fraction

In article <slrngra1q0.boe.foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, JB <foo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2009-03-09, nmm1@xxxxxxxxx <nmm1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
rudra <bnrj.rudra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
oh thanks. i made it with "numerical recepies"

That book should be burnt. Some of it is reliable; other bits are
so bad that even an inexperienced programmer is better off writing
something from scratch.

I think it's useful as a sort of high-level overview of what the major
algorithms are in various subfields of numerical analysis, without
getting bogged down in the details. If you want to know the details,
there are of course much better books for any specific subject, but
I'm not aware of any single book that provides the breadth of NR. ...

Nor one that is as likely to lead the reader into catastrophe. Its
"high level" comments are as much a problem as its code - some are
true and reliable, but some are potentially catastrophic. And, of
course, only an expert can tell which :-(


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
.

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