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In <1993Jan22.182648.7390@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> cflatter@nrao.edu writes:

> In article 1729@ryn.mro4.dec.com, randolph@est.enet.dec.com (Tom Randolph) writes:
> >
> >In article <3190@tymix.Tymnet.COM>, kopfj@bert.Tymnet.COM (John Kopf, X6305) writes...
> >>I suspect that a FAQ describing common algorithms in ALGEBRA (rather than in a
> >>particular computer language) would be welcome by many...I really hate the common
> >>practice of displaying programs in BASIC, as it is most difficult to transcribe to
> >>some other language.
> >> 
> >>A discussion of "precision" would also be useful for those of us who are not
> >>numerical analysts.
> >> 
> >>JK
> >
> >This would quickly expand to occupy megabytes, which I imagine is why no one
> >ever posts it here. There's really no way to give it proper treatment without a
> >whole book's worth of formulae... hence the book references. "Astronomical
> >Algorithms" by Meeus is excellent.
> 
> Unfortunately his discussion of numerical precision is very outdated.  Almost
> anything you are likely to have on your desk these days will maintain much
> better precision than Meeus would lead you to believe (most machines will
> only lose one bit of precision in subtraction no matter how close the numbers
> being subtracted for example).
> 
> 	Chris Flatters
> 	cflatter@nrao.edu
>