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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Implementation of pow(3m) function
Keywords: math-library exponentiation C
Message-ID: <2621@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 6 Aug 90 21:45:47 GMT
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In article <11143@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
<Getting an accurate pow() function is very, very difficult.
<I believe that if I were to set out to write a good pow() function
<from scratch, it would take me at least several months.

What do you think of the algorithm described in Cody & Waite's
"Software Manual For The Elementary Functions"?