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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Real LOGn functions in TP 5.5 needed
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Date: 24 Mar 91 17:58:51 GMT
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In article <7152@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine) writes:
>  I'd be surprised if you could
>  outsmart the guys at Borland who wrote the Math package, which has
>  been an industry leader in speed for quite some time now.

Do you think that Borland wrote the math routines?  There's some circumstantial
evidence that they didn't write the coprocessor emulator routines:  the source
code isn't available with the run-time library.  This carries over to some other
math routines, since LN (at least the $N+ version) is calculated using one of
the INT 3E calls.  Not conclusive by any means, but it has the signs of being
code licensed from someone else.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu