All these good theoretical considerations aside, it will be interesting to
see how the winding number algorithm performs on actual data.

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Boyko Bantchev <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 23 April 2010 00:02, Bo Jacoby <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The winding number program (%&0j2p1)@(+/)@:^.@(% _1&|.) is not "slow,
> unstable, and incomplete (hence buggy)".
>
> Of course it is.  It does not handle boundary cases.  It uses too
> complicated operations, introducing inaccuracy and unstability
> where it – by the nature of the problem – should absolutely not.
> That same operations make it slow, too.
>
...

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