Hi all, I have encountered some missing functions that are easy to fix in [math]. I've done it on my local copy but would like your opinion before committing them.
There are no function to raise a double to an int argument. There are similar functions to raise an int, a long or a BigDecimal, but not double. I have added one and arbitrarily choose to put it in FastMath. There are no function to compute Stirling numbers of the second kind (they are used in some combinatorial problems, and also appear in some high order derivatives). I have added one in ArithmeticUtils, with some lazy evaluation and caching to avoid recomputing them all the time, as we often need only the smaller ones. The function to compute binomial coefficients in ArithmeticUtils does not cache its results. This could be easily added for the smallest coefficients (I've done that for Striling number as explained in the paragraph above). What do you think about these additions? Luc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
