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Re: Proposal for 'math.e' (2007-08-23)

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at g?x?de> Aug 29, 2007
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Marco Achury wrote:

> I'm reading late this discussion about math.e
> 
> My opinion, in the official euphoria release 
> must to be included basic math definitions.
> 
> Will be great to have specialized library for
> advanced math and statistic, complex numbers, 
> matrix, etc.  Is important for student, academics
> engineers.
> 
> But 99% of the programs will never need this 
> kind of advanced maths.
> 
> If I only need to use in one program power()
> or sin() function, why must I to overload the 
> compile time with a lot of advanced complex 
> maths.
> 
> My suggest is keep a very simple math.e  
> Including basic math of any kind, power, 
> root, sin, log, abs

The Euphoria community currently is in the process of creating
a basic "math.e" library.

> Anyway I thing is good to have specialiced
> advanced functions as:
> 
> - Advanced trigonometrics.
> - Advanced statistics, ANOVA, Correlations, experimental test
> - Complex numbers
> - Matrix and equation systems
> - Electronics
> - Structures engineering
> - Hidraulic engineer

Some of these things (e.g. statistics) are already planned.

> But as complementary libraries and not as part of the 
> official release.

Do you know that there are already a lot of "complementary libraries"
on the User contributions page <http://rapideuphoria.com/contrib.htm>?
However, if an additional library, say "statistics.e" will be shipped
with the official realease, that will not hurt anyone who doesn't use it.
But it might attract new users to the language.

Regards,
   Juergen