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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2001-11-22 14:04:29 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2001-11-22 14:04:29 +0000
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Totally rework the math library, this time based on the MacOs X
math library (which is itself based on the math lib from FreeBSD). -Erik
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-The actual routines included in this math library are derived almost
-exclusively from the Cephes Mathematical Library, which "is copyrighted by the
-author [and] may be used freely but ... comes with no support or guarantee"
+The routines included in this math library are derived from the
+math library for Apple's MacOS X/Darwin math library, which was
+itself swiped from FreeBSD. The original copyright information
+is as follows:
-It has been ported to fit into uClibc and generally behave
-by Erik Andersen <andersen@lineo.com>, <andersee@debian.org>
- 5 May, 2001
+ Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
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+ Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
+ Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
+ software is freely granted, provided that this notice
+ is preserved.
- Some software in this archive may be from the book _Methods and
-Programs for Mathematical Functions_ (Prentice-Hall, 1989) or
-from the Cephes Mathematical Library, a commercial product. In
-either event, it is copyrighted by the author. What you see here
-may be used freely but it comes with no support or guarantee.
+It has been ported to work with uClibc and generally behave
+by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
+ 22 May, 2001
- The two known misprints in the book are repaired here in the
-source listings for the gamma function and the incomplete beta
-integral.
-
-
- Stephen L. Moshier
- moshier@world.std.com
-
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-
-19 November 1992
-
-ZIP archive constructed and index compiled.
-
-To reconstruct the original directory structure, use the -d switch:
-
- C:\CEPHES>pkunzip -d cephes
-
-This archive includes all the programs in the /netlib/cephes directory
-on research.att.com as of 17 Nov 92. The file "index" will tell you in
-what directory and file each function can be found. If there is
-something else mentioned in cephes.doc that you need, you can check
-research.att.com to see whether it has been added. Failing that, you
-can contact Stephen Moshier.
-
- Jim Van Zandt <jrv@mbunix.mitre.org>