[gambit-list] Need new flonum functions---are they available on all systems of interest?

Bradley Lucier lucier at math.purdue.edu
Mon Dec 9 17:00:31 EST 2013


On 12/09/2013 02:41 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:
> These primitives have now been added.

Thanks.

>   It would be nice to also have generic versions (sinh, cosh, etc).  Brad, can you implement these in _num.scm?  The hardest part is determining what the branch cuts are.

They're all ready to go.

> Are there more Schemish names for scalbn, ilogb, expm1 and log1p?  I kind of like that they are the same as in C, but if there is are names for these things in other Schemes, then I'm open to change the names for compatibility reasons.

OK.  I don't really know, maybe I'll ask the racket mail list.

I think there are names for at least some of these functions in Common Lisp.

Brad



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