On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:08:45AM -0700, Richard Fateman wrote:
> I suppose a version of that 8-line Mathematica program can be written in
> Maxima;
> All you need is a simple rootfinder (FindRoot in Mathematica; presumably has
> an equivalent in Maxima).
the equivalent is probably find_root, which seems to use double floats
to search, but evaluates functions that can use bigfloats internally
via float->bigfloat conversion.
So if you need extreme precision in the root itself you're out of luck
(out of the box) but if you just need high precision for intermediate
values it should work fine.
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Daniel Lakeland
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