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Re: Inverse hyperbolics? [message #85817 is a reply to message #85815]

Wed, 11 September 2013 14:20

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Registered: April 2002

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Huh, that is weird. If you've got ALOG in the list of transcendentals,
why not its "inverse"?

BTW, this is a side issue, I've always wondered why the logarithm
function is called ALOG instead of just LOG.

cheers,

paulv

On 09/11/13 15:28, fawltylanguage@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 6:14:43 PM UTC+2, Mark Piper wrote:
>
>> This is a very reasonable request. While we're at it, maybe we
>> should add secant, cosecant and cotangent functions. And a log base
>> 2 function. Here's the list of transcendental functions currently
>> in IDL:
>>
>> http://www.exelisvis.com/docs/routines-65.html
>>
>
> exp? :-)
>
> (It is there under Math Miscellaneous, but why there?)
>
> regards, Lajos
>

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		Inverse hyperbolics? By: tom.grydeland on Wed, 11 September 2013 03:48
		Re: Inverse hyperbolics? By: Mark Piper on Wed, 11 September 2013 09:14
		Re: Inverse hyperbolics? By: suicidaleggroll on Wed, 11 September 2013 09:34
		Re: Inverse hyperbolics? By: Mark Piper on Wed, 11 September 2013 09:55
		Re: Inverse hyperbolics? By: Lajos Foldy on Wed, 11 September 2013 12:28
		Re: Inverse hyperbolics? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 11 September 2013 14:20
		Re: Inverse hyperbolics? By: Lajos Foldy on Thu, 12 September 2013 01:20
		Re: Inverse hyperbolics? By: tom.grydeland on Thu, 12 September 2013 02:58

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