> By the way, we'll definitely want to create an arbitrary precision find_root > using MPFR etc. at some point -- that will be very exciting. (The above is > just supposed to do some wimpy machine precision root finding.)
a possible starting point is http://komite.net/laurent/pro/these-20070228.pdf, (in french sorry) Chapter 5, Section 18, where Laurent Fousse compares several methods for polynomials (dichotomy, Newton, secant). Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
