Re: Calculator but not HP Message #13 Posted by Eduardo Duenez on 19 Apr 2012, 3:08 p.m., in response to message #7 by Paul Dale
I'm a number theorist and, unlike some of my colleagues, I have rather limited experience in numerical algorithms, but I'm quite curious nonetheless (I'm a mathematician first, a number theorist second!)
Are the algorithms used by HP calculators SOLVE function publicly disclosed? (Is documentation available?) Are they standard or ad-hoc? Do they vary between different models?
Perhaps more to the point, Pauli. What's WP34s's current solver algorithm based upon? Brent's method perhaps?
I guess I ought to search the forum's history for discussions of issues others have found in the current solve function in the 34s. I am in possession of the 34s's manual, but of course it's not a reference manual on the internal algorithms ;-)
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