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Subject: Re: sqrt
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From: Matt_Fow...@softhome.net (Matt Fowles)

All~

Perhaps it is just the mathematician in me speaking, but I think that a 
sqrt op might be superfluous and could be replaced with exp as sqrt(x) 
== exp(x,0.5).  I cannot say anything about numerical stability of 
precision, though, so feel free to shoot me down.

Matt

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 4:50 PM +0200 4/27/04, Stefan Lidman wrote:
> 
>>  >Everything is right, except... you forgot either the -c or -u switch
>>
>>> for the diff. (And no, I don't know why the default output from diffs
>>> is mostly useless. Just one of those things, I expect)
>>
>>
>> ok resend with -u switch.
> 
> 
> And it's in. Thanks!