why 'lambda' and 'reduce'?

[Manuel M Garcia]

On 15 Jun 2003 19:08:26 GMT, Andrew Walkingshaw
<andrew-usenet at lexical.org.uk> wrote:

>> As long as you play by the computer's rules, error is not much of a
>> problem.

>> If you get your
>> algorithms from books, you can trust they will be stable.

>I have this Polak-Ribiere conjugate gradients minimization algorithm
>I'd like to sell you, in that case...

I know just enough numerical analysis to get into trouble... ;-)

Manuel