Complex arg-trig functions

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sun Aug 5 19:19:55 UTC 2012


On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 01:48:53PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> On 08/05/2012 05:05 AM, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> 
> >>
> >>What is the purpose of the macros norm and spadd?
> >
> >[Answer snipped for brevity]
> 
> Thank you.  Your answers are very helpful.  I had no idea what norm and 
> spadd did, and now just even glancing through your answers tells me 
> exactly what they do (even if I haven't yet fully understood why they work).
> 
> If you don't want lengthy comments in the code, perhaps you could simply 
> include the following link in a comment:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-numerics/2012-August/000020.html
> 
> Let me say that in my proposed code for casinh, etc, that I do have 
> essay length comments.
> http://people.freebsd.org/~stephen/catrig.c
> 
> I plan to respect your style (keep out very lengthy comments), but I 
> hope whomever commits my code will respect my style and keep the lengthy 
> comments.

Essay long comments probably belong in the man page if the essay is
important to the details of implementation.  Bruce may disagree with
me.

-- 
Steve


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