Implementation of pow(3m) function

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <2621 at dataio.Data-IO.COM>, bright at Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:

> What do you think of the algorithm described in Cody & Waite's
> "Software Manual For The Elementary Functions"?

It's not bad, but if I remember correctly it could be significantly
improved upon.  I think I recall an article in the IBM Journal of R&D
about a power algorithm that gives no more than 1 ULP error.
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				--Andrew Koenig
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