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Math library question…
« on: May 14, 2003, 09:51:40 PM »
How much would you pay for a good math library?
What would you like to see in it?
 

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Re: Math library question…
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2003, 12:37:52 AM »
so are there are no maths librarys for the amiga? thats pretty piss poor  :-(
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Re: Math library question…
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2003, 04:49:30 AM »
Humm, I'd pay money for a math library that performed all the standard trig  functions:

sine
cosine
tangent
arcsine
arccosine
arctangent
hyperbolic sine
hyperbolic cosine
hyperbolic tangent
etc.

logs
natural logs
etc.

Support for imaginary numbers might be nice.
Diferentiation and integration would also be fantastic!

Multi-dimensional vector operations.  :-)

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Re: Math library question…
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2003, 07:13:53 AM »
Good math libraries are already available for free. The GNU'd program Octave---which was designed to resemble Matlab as much as possible---makes use of a set of set of math libraries (LAPACK, LINPACK, ODEPACK, and a few more) which I would like to see as a bare minimum: linear equation solver, numerical differentiation and integration, root finders, and so on. A commercial product containing less than the above is a rip-off, especially if you consider that these libraries are extremely well-tested and thus, while perhaps not the fastest available, exceedingly robust and bug-free. Anyone who has dealt with numerical analysis in more than a passing manner knows how important this issue is.

To answer your question: I would pay for a library which contained more exotic features, such as a good symbolic equation manipulator/solver, a variety of partial differential equation solvers, statistical tools, easy-to-use data format converters, and so on, and so on. It is a very feature-rich field to choose from: just look at the plethora of features available for both Matlab and Mathematica, for example.  
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Re: Math library question…
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2003, 02:33:06 PM »
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Sidewinder wrote:
Humm, I'd pay money for a math library that performed all the standard trig  functions:

sine
cosine
tangent
arcsine
arccosine
arctangent
hyperbolic sine
hyperbolic cosine
hyperbolic tangent
etc.

logs
natural logs
etc.

Support for imaginary numbers might be nice.
Diferentiation and integration would also be fantastic!

Multi-dimensional vector operations.  :-)

I'll keep dreaming...


Plenty of C++ libraries available for this kind of thing.
int p; // A
 

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Re: Math library question…
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2003, 02:01:43 AM »
I thought that'd be the case.
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