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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Implementation of pow(3m) function
Keywords: math-library exponentiation C
Message-ID: <11162@alice.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 90 22:54:24 GMT
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In article <2621@dataio.Data-IO.COM>, bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:

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

It's not bad, but if I remember correctly it could be significantly
improved upon.  I think I recall an article in the IBM Journal of R&D
about a power algorithm that gives no more than 1 ULP error.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com