[SciPy-dev] Numerical Recipes (was tagging 0.7rc1 this weekend?)

[Alan G Isaac]

> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Jarrod Millman <millman@berkeley.edu wrote:
> Would you be willing to take care of `ridder` and 
> `brentq`?  If you are willing, I would appreciate it if 
> you could verify that our implementations are not derived 
> from the Numerical Recipes code.  The docstrings for these 
> two functions seem to indicate that the code
> differs from that in Numerical Recipes, so you may be able 
> to find references for our implementations.
> Hopefully you could do somethings like Josef did for 
> ks2_samp: 
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/changeset/5223


On 12/6/2008 3:19 AM Charles R Harris apparently wrote:
> I wrote the routines. They are similar too, but not the same as the NR 
> versions. 


So I take it then that is needed is a docstring revision?
I have attempted this for `ridder`:
http://docs.scipy.org/scipy/docs/scipy.optimize.zeros.ridder/
(Note that the parameter `disp` remains undocumented
as I do not know its function.)  If this is what is desired,
I am happy to change the brentq documentation similarly.
(http://docs.scipy.org/scipy/docs/scipy.optimize.zeros.brentq/)

Cheers,
Alan