Richard Brodie wrote: > "Mathias Waack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> BTW, does anybody know why the c-lib offers both log and log1p? > > So you can get a sensible answer computing log(1 + 10 ^ -30).
Ok, that make sense to me. > There's > a lot of somewhat obscure mathematical stuff that got into the standard > C lib. How often do you need Bessel functions? Maybe each day. What is a Bessel function?;) Mathias -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list