You really can't: that may well cause some *other* root to blow up. Rootfinding ...

		exmadscientist on Nov 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yet another alternative to floating-point numbers You really can't: that may well cause some other root to blow up. Rootfinding may be one of the simplest nontrivial problems in numerical analysis, and yet it still goes wrong plenty often.