9 Aug
2009
9 Aug
'09
8:10 a.m.
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Paul Sargent wrote:
Well, I'm an engineer rather than a mathematician, so I'm not 100% sure I followed everything on that page, but you seem to be saying that nth-root can't be done because we're using floating point, and floating point isn't accurate enough to represent 1/n.
Yes that's one problem.
I basically agree with this, which was why I asked about nth-root functions, but for my uses (**) is good enough as long as complex zero works.
In NumericPrelude we have the 'root' function for that purpose.