At Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:33:04 -0400,
James Ward wrote:
> 
> I did some timing tests, and it looks like Moler & Morrision is about
> twice as slow as gsl_hypot(), up to the same accuracy (1e-15).
> 
> http://steve.hollasch.net/cgindex/math/pythag-root.txt
> 
> suggests this is due to M&M being cubically convergent, while
> gsl_hypot() is quadratically convergent. So ... never mind!
> 

Interesting read! Thanks for that.

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