Implementation of pow(3m) function

[Walter Bright]

In article <11143 at alice.UUCP> ark at alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
<Getting an accurate pow() function is very, very difficult.
<I believe that if I were to set out to write a good pow() function
<from scratch, it would take me at least several months.

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