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Re: Passing more than an initial guess to a function used by NEWTON [message #75350 is a reply to message #75348]

Thu, 24 February 2011 12:47

wlandsman
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Registered: June 2000

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>
> I encountered this issue in the past, and would be interested in a way
> better than system or global variables. It would be so easy if
> newton() had something like the uvalues used by widgets, or it called
> a method on an object.

Or if one could use the _EXTRA facilty to pass parameters to the function..

The problem is that these Numerical Recipes routines are written with great fidelity to the original 1992 C code, and so they don't take advantage of IDL capabilities that would make them easier to use.

Meanwhile, one must live with common blocks. --Wayne

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		Re: Passing more than an initial guess to a function used by NEWTON By: Jeremy Bailin on Fri, 25 February 2011 07:49
		Re: Passing more than an initial guess to a function used by NEWTON By: fgg on Thu, 24 February 2011 13:29
		Re: Passing more than an initial guess to a function used by NEWTON By: penteado on Thu, 24 February 2011 13:10
		Re: Passing more than an initial guess to a function used by NEWTON By: wlandsman on Thu, 24 February 2011 12:47
		Re: Passing more than an initial guess to a function used by NEWTON By: fgg on Thu, 24 February 2011 12:42
		Re: Passing more than an initial guess to a function used by NEWTON By: penteado on Thu, 24 February 2011 12:32

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