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ref: c8fc28663680895932ff0b2014e2abefc63abf8f
parent: fc17cedc8457c6493887b60435c3c16d99784560
author: S. Gilles <[email protected]>
date: Tue Jul 24 02:00:28 EDT 2018

Document that generate-minimax-by-Remez.gp has issues.

--- a/lib/math/ancillary/generate-minimax-by-Remez.gp
+++ b/lib/math/ancillary/generate-minimax-by-Remez.gp
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /*
   Attempts to find a minimax polynomial of degree n for f via Remez
-  algorithm.
+  algorithm. The Remez algorithm appears to be slightly shot, but
+  the initial step of approximating by Chebyshev nodes works, and
+  is usually good enough.
  */
 
 { chebyshev_node(a, b, k, n) = my(p, m, c);