Hi DAvid,

You wrote to Mike Bilow:

DN>I then re-coded it in C and used Borland C/C++ 3.1 to produce a 16:16
DN>DOS program. This gave me the more expected result that the N-R method
DN>took about 40% less time than using pow(). I think that pow() is
DN>implemented in the BCAF 3.1 run-time as exp(log()) without any further
DN>thought on Borland's part.

I've just looked, its coded in assembler in the run time library source.

George

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