why 'lambda' and 'reduce'?

[Andrew Walkingshaw]

In article <mhomev4n2lolc0sb9id8m9ul463vn2pn5b at 4ax.com>, Manuel M Garcia wrote:
> As long as you play by the computer's rules, error is not much of a
> problem.  To get 5000 digits, I only had to give the computer 10 extra
> digits to work with, and that was probably overkill.  If you get your
> algorithms from books, you can trust they will be stable.

I have this Polak-Ribiere conjugate gradients minimization algorithm
I'd like to sell you, in that case...

(A problem I'm having due to error propagation, in fact, in another
part of my simulations :( ) 

- Andrew

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