From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:55:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Generalised bisection
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903121154560.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650903112345x3d40b70ap7e4c0f8c7d0b6069@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, John Tapsell wrote:

> 2009/3/11 Ealdwulf Wuffinga <ealdwulf@googlemail.com>:
> > [John will get this twice, sorry; not used to this mail interface yet.]
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:35 AM, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> mpmath might be the more annoying dependency - what functions do you
> >> use from it?  Could they trivially be reimplemented?
> >
> > What I use is the multiprecision floating point number class. doubles
> > don't seem to be long enough.
> 
> Hmm, really really?  Sometimes this sort of thing can be fixed by just 
> readjusting the formulas.  What formulas are you using that require more 
> precision than doubles?

Maybe you could post the formulae instead of forcing people to deduct them 
from the source code?

Thanks,
Dscho