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Re: [Help-gsl] Why no floats in multimin functions?


From: Brian Gough
Subject: 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.

-- 
best regards

Brian Gough

Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing Free Software Manuals --- http://www.network-theory.co.uk/




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