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On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 20:30:20 +0300, "Eli Zaretskii"
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> sat on a tribble, which squeaked:

>In any decent course in numerical computation, the first lesson
>teaches you that you cannot even solve a quadratic equation without
>risking numerical pitfalls.

Newton's method? That does division, iteratively. The quadratic
formula? I doubt you'll have trouble with numerical instability except
right on the threshold of zero.

Now please stop spouting your "numerical wisdom" and give some real,
usable information about what might cause what was observed, given
that all I did was assign some numbers to some doubles/long doubles
and perform a few arithmetic operations on them -- not even inside of
a loop.

-- 
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