On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:27 PM, mark mcclure <mcmcc...@unca.edu> wrote: > On Nov 7, 7:22 pm, Tom Boothby <tomas.boot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey, that's pretty neat! I wonder if this is a direct response to our >> public criticism of their (extreme lack of) openness? >> ... >> > Mark Sofroniou (one of the numerical algorithm developers at Wolfram >> > Research) and Giulia Spaletta (a numerical analyst at the University >> > of Bologna) published a paper that details the specifics of >> > significance arithmetic as it is implemented in Mathematica: >> >> > "Precise numerical computation" >> > The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming >> > Volume 64, Issue 1, Pages 113-134 (July 2005) > > Well, that paper was published in 2005 and certainly written before > then, so it seems unlikely. In fact, Mark has 12 hits on MathSciNet > dating back to 1994, all of which directly describe algorithms in > Mathematica. I can think of many other authors off the top of my head > who have published descriptions of the algorithms used in > Mathematica.
I was referring to the webpage, and not the journal article, lest I be further accused of illicit drug use. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
