From: "Orlando P. Hevia" <heviaop AT ssdfe DOT com DOT ar>
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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 20:56:51 -0300
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Graaagh the Mighty wrote:

> 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.

You can see what can do the processors with numbers in 
"Beastly Numbers" by Prof. W. Kahan. I downloaded it from 
some site in internet, but I don't remember the URL. 
Searching for Kahan you will find it, surely.

OPH. 2001-7-4 20:55
Ing. Orlando P. Hevia   
heviaop AT ssdfe DOT com DOT ar
Santa Fe-Argentina