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Going between F and P

P can be found from F by first computing R from F (section 2) and then computing computing P from R (section 4.) Neither of these steps is computationally expensive. Similarly, F can be found from P by first computing R from P (section 5) and then computing computing F from R (section 3.) However, computing R from P is expensive and involves finding the roots of a quartic equation.

Steve Tanimoto
2000-02-04