On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 23:14 -0700, Robert Dodier wrote:
> Hi Damiano,
>
> By the way, the formulas in the script you attached to your
> previous email are slightly different from your original post.
>
You're right ,I made a mistake in my original post .
>
> (Lisp in general, including GCL apparently, isn't
> comfortable with the IEEE 754 special values
> for not-a-number and infinity.)
>
> The floating point overflow means only that mnewton diverged.
> So there's really nothing to do but try another starting point.
>
Ok, thanks you for the explanation.