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Thu, 18 January 2007 13:04 |
Kenneth Bowman
Messages: 86
Registered: November 2006
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I stumbled upon the planned NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
http://dlmf.nist.gov/
which is slated to replace the venerable and venerated 'Abramowitz and Stegun'
Handbook of Mathematical Functions.
They have a sample section available online for the gamma function
http://dlmf.nist.gov/Contents/GA/
I note that there is a 'Software' subsection
http://dlmf.nist.gov/Contents/GA/24/
that lists software -- presumably systems that are known to have facilities
for calculating gamma and related functions.
IDL is notably absent from the list, which includes IMSL (now available in
IDL for a fee), Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, NAG, and Numerical Recipes, to
name only the systems that I have heard of.
I would hate to see the full version of the Library go live (scheduled for this
year) and have viewers think that IDL did *not* have a gamma function routine
(among others).
I'll submit a note to ITTVIS, but I'm curious about others' reactions.
Ken Bowman
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