Sam Ritchie

Nice! The first thing that would be great here would be a short paragraph for each of these about what it is testing, what is actually happening. Next thing is...

Thanks @MagusMachinae ! I will have some time in the next day or so to give this a review.

Not presumptuous, but it is indeed more complicated! The issue is that the description of the algorithm here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent%27s_method#Algorithm does not match the code in Brent's book, in chapter 4....

That's excellent, @kolharsam ! Some tips: - I think these should go into `sicmutils.generic` - the above code is basically this: ```clojure (fn call ([] default-case) ([x] (unary-fn x)) ([x...

@kolharsam assigned you, so this is yours :)

Here was the exploration that led to Siskind pointing us to the paper above: A friend and I were fiddling around with nth-order symbolic derivatives, trying to figure out how...

@alexgian this is the solution to the problem you've discovered! the potential for a fix is even bigger than we thought. We were looking at the special case of higher-order...

Here's the sections code: https://gist.github.com/sritchie/8f0a749734e2db196d58652517a2e438

@kannangce Yes, that is a pretty old version of scmutils, from back in 2015 and pushed up by @tipoca but not official. The current version, from May of 2022, lives...

@teodorlu , I'll write you tonight, sorry for the delay, lots going on. I am going to start accumulating some prior art here that we can look at for design,...