The following graphs and data are for a hypothetical engagement between the Battleship Iowa (BB-61) and an unlucky enemy warship. My numbers are very close to those found in Ordnance Pamphlet 770 at the following website:
https://eugeneleeslover.com/USN-GUNS-AND-RANGE-TABLES/OP-770-1.html
Unfortunately, I can only find the preceding executable applications and no source code. These programs date back to 2001 and 2002 while I was a graduate student in software engineering and computer science at Auburn University. I seem to recall that these apps were created using Win32 C or C++.
The Goldwasser-Kilian Primality proving algorithm was the first method to utilize elliptic curves to generate primality proving certificates. What follows is a file of two certificates and the single precision C source code.
The problem is to find the real root of the equation: f(x)=x^(x^8)-8=0. I use the Newton-Raphson method, a root finding algorithm. A first guess is x = 2. The solution is: x = 1.2968395547, f(x) = -2.6645353e-15. I compute the necessary derivative using central-finite differences with a step size of h = 2/10000.
Numerical Explorations 