Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!galaxy!argus!ken
From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Professional Programmers (was: Seeing the future)
Summary: convincing scientists of similar functions
Message-ID: <1243@argus.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 88 12:16:10 GMT
References: <1984@eos.UUCP> <28200245@mcdurb> <321@taux02.UUCP>
Organization: NJ Instit. of Tech: TEIES Project
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In article <321@taux02.UUCP>, amos@taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
: In article <28200245@mcdurb> aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
: >I am excited because a friend was parallelizing the previously
: >best known algorithm (...) and he was obtaining impressive
: >speedups
: is to change things like  cos(atan(x))**2  to  1/(1+x*x) .
: The hardest part is convincing the scientists that it does make a difference.

Or in my case, convincing someone that taking the absolute value
of a squared simple (as opposed to complex) number really makes 
no sense.
: 	Amos Shapir				amos@nsc.com
: National Semiconductor (Israel) P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel

Kenneth Ng: Post office: NJIT - CCCC, Newark New Jersey  07102
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