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Re: [Help-gsl] Why no floats in multimin functions?
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Brian Gough |
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Re: [Help-gsl] Why no floats in multimin functions? |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:17:30 +0000 |
James Bergstra writes:
> I am disappointed to find that there are not float versions of the
> multimin routines, was float support omitted on purpose ?
See the GSL design document at http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/ for a
brief discussion of this topic. Basically it is a lot more work to
support multiple types in C. For most purposes double is sufficient.
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best regards
Brian Gough
Network Theory Ltd,
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