Re: [OctDev] A few (Octave) ideas

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Jun-2010, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On  3-Jun-2010, Jake wrote:
| > 
| > | 1. Is there a reason why these functions haven't already been 
implemented? 
| > | Lack of information on the algorithms, perhaps?
| > 
| > Or, given that we have other ODE/DAE solvers that are quite good, no
| > compelling reason other than compatibility to write them?
| 
| Some are good.  I recall about a year ago doing an ODE project and found that 
ode23 didn't converge so accurately.  Perhaps the ODE I was trying to solve was 
in the stiff category.  But, ode45 was OK; and odebda was excellent.

I was referring to lsode and dassl/daspk.

jwe