From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Generalised bisection Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:55:26 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <200903100808.15875.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <43d8ce650903110235q5e2a59f6t201d5e65a4937476@mail.gmail.com> <43d8ce650903112345x3d40b70ap7e4c0f8c7d0b6069@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323328-1133572879-1236855327=:10279" Cc: Ealdwulf Wuffinga , Christian Couder , Git List , Ingo Molnar To: John Tapsell X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 12 11:55:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LhiZN-0005Qt-4n for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:55:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754706AbZCLKxs (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:53:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754075AbZCLKxr (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:53:47 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:35770 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753374AbZCLKxq (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:53:46 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2009 10:53:43 -0000 Received: from pacific.mpi-cbg.de (EHLO pacific.mpi-cbg.de) [141.5.10.38] by mail.gmx.net (mp066) with SMTP; 12 Mar 2009 11:53:43 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1++aLRXQsq+MHQ0+0bIIAtkxOUJ5VDwlx6pg3HIo4 0e/JUkBz67VA9g X-X-Sender: schindelin@pacific.mpi-cbg.de In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650903112345x3d40b70ap7e4c0f8c7d0b6069@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.6899999999999999 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-1133572879-1236855327=:10279 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Hi, On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote: > 2009/3/11 Ealdwulf Wuffinga : > > [John will get this twice, sorry; not used to this mail interface yet.] > > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:35 AM, John Tapsell wrote: > > > >> mpmath might be the more annoying dependency - what functions do you > >> use from it?  Could they trivially be reimplemented? > > > > What I use is the multiprecision floating point number class. doubles > > don't seem to be long enough. > > Hmm, really really? Sometimes this sort of thing can be fixed by just > readjusting the formulas. What formulas are you using that require more > precision than doubles? Maybe you could post the formulae instead of forcing people to deduct them from the source code? Thanks, Dscho --8323328-1133572879-1236855327=:10279--