[Numpy-discussion] Cython-based OpenMP-accelerated quartic, polynomial solver

[Juha Jeronen]

Hi,

On 29.09.2015 19:16, Matti Picus wrote:
>> The algorithms for cubics and quadratics come from Numerical Recipes
>> (3rd ed.), and the quartic problem is internally reduced to a cubic and
>> two quadratics, using well-known standard tricks.
> Nice, wll documented code.
> Just to be sure you are on safe ground, you took the *algorithms* but no *code* from Numerical Recipes, right? They are pretty clear about their licensing, see
> http://www.nr.com/licenses/redistribute.html
> This bit from the site might be relevant:
> "We never give permission for Numerical Recipes source code to be posted on any public server, or distributed with any freeware or shareware package."
> Matti

Yes, the code is original (written from scratch), only the algorithms 
come from the book.


  -J

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Juha Jeronen, Ph.D.
juha.jeronen at jyu.fi
University of Jyväskylä
Department of Mathematical Information Technology
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