• I wanted to avoid the use of C (or any other language)
  
  
• It took a little while (about one day) to get the argument passing to work correctly
  
  
• It took another day or so to refine the interface to a straight forward recipe
  
  
• It generates a floating point exception although there is none!
  
  
• An alternative implementation using a C wrapper eliminated the floating point exception
  
  
• It requires that VC++ be installed on the host platform, even although it it not used!
  
  
• It works well