[Om3] <Description>

Professor James Davenport jhd at cs.bath.ac.uk
Mon Sep 8 10:55:49 CEST 2008


Chris Rowley asked, a propos of transc1 but the question is more general,
" Is A and S a useful reference for 'K-14 users' or software
implementors?".
Of course, one deosn't expect the K14 USER  to read Abramowitz + Stegun,  
but one ight well expect a developer (at least a mathematical one) to, and
indeed be criticised if the branch cuts weren't in accordance (or equally
a reference to ISO 10967).
This raises the question: do we want to structure the 'description' field
more: e.g. <Description> and <FinePrint>, which might then be:
<Description>
The sine function of trigonometry
</Description>
<FinePrint>
As described in Abramowitz and Stegun, section 4.3, and ISO/IEC 10967.
</FinePrint>

Thoughts?

James



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