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From: hofbauer@utcsri.UUCP (John Hofbauer)
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Subject: Re: simplex algorithsm for curve fitting---any disadvantage ??
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> I expect to be severely scorched by serious numerical analysts.
> Go ahead, send me your proofs of instability, or your flames, or whatever.

As long as you are computing with approximations to the real numbers,
i.e. floating point numbers, things can be made to fail. They may
not fail for what you are interested in but they can be made to fail.
There is no free lunch.
				-- a serious numerical analyst