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Subject: Wow! Re: Slide rules at the ready!

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 03:14:05 04/21/05

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Hi Odd Gunnar,

It is extremely fascinating stuff! Thanks for the graphs. Wonderful!

A bit embarrassing I can't yet see from the head where my new routine exactly
goes wrong.
Didn't yet have time to check myself. Turbo Pascal does not work on this
computer. I can try the old 386, but Turbo pascal does not have such great
accuracy anyway. First I will try to put it in TI-basic.

You were absolutely right about the minus sign. That is equivalent to putting in
phi = -(((((c5 * t + c4) * t + c3) * t + c2) * t + c1) * t * sndf)+1
That is how the routine should have been...
Since taking -Rtdiff gives the complementary surface under the normal curve that
amounts to the same thing!

The "groot" curve does follow the normal curve right up to about 0.9, so maybe
tolerance factor is to blame. Tol can be a smaller number of course. More likely
it simply does not converge at numbers close to one or zero.

 Eelco






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