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In article <3653374B.950EFD0F@trc.tellabs.com>,
  Ken Laberteaux <klaberte@trc.tellabs.com> wrote:
> I am reading the 2nd Edition of _Numerical Recipes in C_.  I am
> specifically looking at laguer.c.
>
> On p. 373 the line of code which implements Eq 9.5.7 (p. 372) is
>
>                h=Csub(g2,RCmul(2.0,Cdiv(f,b)));
>
> However Eq 9.5.7 (p. 372) makes no reference of the 2, indicating that
> the correct version should be
>
>                h=Csub(g2,Cdiv(f,b));
In Numerical Recipes in Fortran (first edition) the line was
		h = g - 2.0 * f / b
So the 2 has been in there from the beginning.
Why don't you post a bug report to their web site:
http://www.nr.com/bugstop.html
>
> Can anyone shed some light into this inconsistency?
>
> Ken Laberteaux
>

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