Re: [boost] Demand for Boost libraries - was Math tools polynomial enhancements

Hmm - I'm not seeing this. for the questions being asked - take the symbolic derivative - there is only one answer. How can one tool be better than another? It is true that there is mathematically only one solution, however its

Hi, formulation is not unique and some formulations might be better suited for numerical implementation. Take for example the sinc(x)=sin(x)/x function as some term in the computed derivative. A tool that returns the term "sin(x)/x" will cause trouble for x=0. if it returns "sinc(x)" i can profit from the fact that someone implemented the function in a numerically stable way. Best, Oswin