On 5/15/07, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I haven't yet heard from Numerical Recipes about my translation of their
> Brent's method routine, so as a stop gap here is a little program which
> implements a fail-safe Newton's method:
>
Why not work directly from Brent's published algorithm? There is no problem
there....
-s