ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (12/07/90)
In article <4529@idunno.Princeton.EDU> subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) writes: >In article <1990Dec5.175558.29859@dg-rtp.dg.com> hagins@gamecock.rtp.dg.com (Jody Hagins) writes: >>In article <2173@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, k3u@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Barry Smith) writes: >>|> Does anyone have the source code to routines that can extract >>|> the complex roots of polynomials? If there is a book that has : >>GENERAL NOTE: >>It's getting close to finals time, and while it is tempting, >>this newsgroup is not the place for getting your homework : >Yes this is true. But why are you assuming that he wants to do his homework >on USENET? Don't you think its a bit prejudging to assume right off the : >Anyway -- what does everyone else think about this? I've seen both sorts of >attitudes on the subject. What do you guys think comp.lang.c should do? Sigh! We had the same discussion (partly my doing) almost exactly a year ago (coincidence? :-). Yes, the opinions were quite divided. One of the views was to take a selfish stand, that is that everything that benefits comp.lang.pascal should be freely discussed. This may be the best tenet. But in my role as a teacher I also feel that the possibility should not be (overly?) misused. On the other hand, being able to use this media amounts to something in a student's education, right. There is no unequivocal answer. As to the current problem of solving the polynomial roots. If one needs the solution for REAL (not imaginary :-) tasks, then just buy the Turbo Pascal Numerical Toolbox, as I pointed out in an earlier posting. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun