| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Paul A Bristow | Sent: 12 June 2004 18:42 | To: Boost | Subject: [boost] Math functions for statistics - a draft TR2 proposal. | | As promised recently, I am presenting a draft of proposals for math | functions which are needed for even most elementary statistics. | | I have been encouraged to submit this to both the C and C++ | Standard Library | groups at the same time. (They seem to speaking more than in | the past). | | These are additions to the list drawn up by Walter Brown | accepted into TR-1. | The style and format follows his closely even though there were some | opposition to them from the C++ community. However I think we have to | accept that C and C++ compatibility are valued more than C++ | 'ideality', and not try to re-open this area of dissent. | The draft has also been uploaded to my own web site http://www.hetp.u-net.com/public/moremathfunctions.pdf aka http://tinyurl.com/45xk3 220 kb. (in addition to the Boost files area and Boost sandbox because these may be inconvenient to access for some) | It would be useful to have comments on | | 1 Typographical mistakes. | 2 Mathematical mistakes (prepared by someone with seriously | rusty math!). | 3 The choice of functions espcially if there are any your | feel strongly are | missing, or are not needed (say why). | 4 The choice of names. Clarity is preferred to curtness. | 5 The choice of names for derivatives like the inverse and | complement. I | have added suffixes _inc and _c (or _com?). | ( for C there will be suffixes f and l for the float and long double | versions). | | Thanks. | | Paul | Paul A Bristow | Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB | +44 1539 561830 +44 7714 330204 | mailto: pbristow@hetp.u-net.com | | _______________________________________________ | Unsubscribe & other changes: | http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost | |