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Where are the math functions?

William Park parkw at better.net
Fri Jun 16 12:50:43 EDT 2000 
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 08:28:00PM +0100, Tim Rowe wrote:
> In article <20000615134357.A1087 at better.net>, parkw at better.net (William 
> Park) wrote:
> 
> > In fact, GNU math.h includes many higher functions like
> >     j0, j1, j2, y0, y1, y2
> >     lngamma, gamma, ...
> >     erfc, erf, ...
> >     cbrt,
> > but Python 'math' module doesn't include them.  So, you have to create a
> > new module of your own.  
> 
> Is Python based on portable C? If so (I hope it is), then it's right not 
> to wrap non-standard libraries as standard. But as Gnu is open source, 
> it's a pretty handy place to get them! I needed them for an academic 
> project, and it's harder to cite gnu source, but the next ones I want for 

What do you mean "harder to cite"?  

--William


> real work I think I'll get that way!
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