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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