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Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines [message #17157 is a reply to message #17029]

Wed, 15 September 1999 00:00

Jonathan Joseph
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Registered: September 1998

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Theo Brauers wrote:

> In our group we do rely on a number of the built-in math routines of IDL and
> I would really appreciate if this group could assemble a warning list of
> bugs in the math routines of IDL. IMO most of the IDL user/programmers do
> simple checks for the correctness of their code but they might never
> check the math routines in detail.

I fully agree with Theo, I've been reading this interesting thread
and I'm a bit concerned. I don't use heavy duty math routines
extensively, but I use a few that I could not be sure if they
are really working correctly. Some people posting to this thread
have mentioned (seemingly knowingly) problems in some IDL math routines.
I've seen a few examples mentioned, but a list of known problems would
be very useful. Is there such a list compiled anywhere? If not,
could those doing the talking help in creating one?

-Jonathan

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		a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Richard G. French on Thu, 09 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: davidf on Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Liam Gumley on Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Mirko Vukovic on Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Theo Brauers on Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: FIT on Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Mirko Vukovic on Mon, 13 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: davidf on Mon, 13 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: FIT on Mon, 13 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: meron on Sat, 11 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Liam Gumley on Sat, 11 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Karl Young on Fri, 10 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: steinhh on Fri, 10 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: ushomirs on Fri, 10 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Mirko Vukovic on Thu, 16 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: m218003 on Thu, 16 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: FIT on Thu, 16 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: FIT on Thu, 16 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: FIT on Thu, 16 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Jonathan Joseph on Wed, 15 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: davidf on Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Mirko Vukovic on Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Theo Brauers on Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: m218003 on Tue, 21 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Karl Young on Mon, 20 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: davidf on Fri, 24 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Liam Gumley on Fri, 24 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 24 September 1999 00:00
		Re: a plea for more reliable mathematical routines By: George White on Fri, 24 September 1999 00:00

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