From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Adding a generic mathematical library
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:58:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-86d1ead5-dfe0-4c9f-8e0e-6117c9b50606-1721573923884@3c-app-mailcom-bs10> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v80yby1r.fsf@gnu.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2024 at 2:49 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Adding a generic mathematical library
>
> > From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> > Cc: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:41:38 +0200
> > Sensitivity: Normal
> >
> > > > If just Eli and Richard could spend a couple of hours
> > > > explaining what improvements are called for?
> > >
> > > I don't know what math-sin-cos-raw is about, but as for math-hypot,
> > > there's no need to implement anything, since this function is standard
> > > in any C libm, and we can easily expose it to Lisp if we need to.
> >
> > Eli. perhaps there can be a math library that calc can use. We will
> > then have a generic math library, and calc and other packages could use
> > some of its functionality. Would that work for you ? But if Emanuel
> > does not want to touch it, what is the point !
>
> This is too abstract a question.
>
> The original issue was not about Calc, it was about a standalone math
> library. For that, we should first define the scope. One possibility
> is to expose to Lisp everything in a typical libm, but is that needed?
> Another possibility is to provide a statistical library (average,
> median, standard deviation, t-Student, F-test, chi-square, etc.) --
> but do we need this? Etc. etc. -- "math library" can be interpreted
> in many different ways.
>
> If we are now talking about improving Calc, someone who knows Calc
> well should describe what is needed, and we can then discuss that in
> detail.
Using Emacs Calc as a foundation for a new mathematical library
in Emacs is a practical and efficient approach. Calc is a powerful tool
with extensive mathematical capabilities, so building on it allows
for leveraging its strengths while focusing on specific needs and
functionalities.
I rather have the people who work on calc do it as they have much more
experience and grasp of what a math library for emacs should do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-21 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 129+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-12 16:47 Add elisa to GNU ELPA Sergey Kostyaev
2024-07-16 12:54 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-16 13:57 ` Sergey Kostyaev
2024-07-16 16:04 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-16 16:35 ` Sergey Kostyaev
2024-07-17 13:21 ` Andrew Hyatt
2024-07-16 16:41 ` Sergey Kostyaev
2024-07-16 17:02 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-16 17:47 ` Adding a generic mathematical library Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-16 22:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-17 2:54 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-17 5:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-19 16:16 ` Richard Stallman
2024-07-19 17:38 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 5:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-20 12:45 ` Max Nikulin
2024-07-20 13:53 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 5:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 6:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 7:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 8:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 8:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 7:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 8:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 9:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 9:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 11:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 11:53 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 12:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 12:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 12:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 13:03 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 13:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 14:41 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 14:58 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2024-07-21 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 15:18 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 13:18 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 13:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 14:35 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 19:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 19:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 19:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 20:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 20:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 12:41 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 13:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 13:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 12:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 12:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 14:30 ` hypotenuse (was: Re: Adding a generic mathematical library) Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 15:12 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 16:13 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 15:54 ` hypotenuse Max Nikulin
2024-07-21 16:12 ` hypotenuse Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 16:17 ` hypotenuse Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 19:01 ` hypotenuse (was: Re: Adding a generic mathematical library) Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 19:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 17:38 ` tomas
2024-11-23 13:33 ` hypotenuse Petteri Hintsanen
2024-11-24 9:16 ` hypotenuse tomas
2024-07-17 7:09 ` Adding a generic mathematical library Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
2024-07-17 7:54 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-17 7:56 ` Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
2024-07-18 6:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 6:45 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-18 7:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 7:49 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 4:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-18 7:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 4:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 8:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-18 9:13 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 4:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-19 13:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-19 16:12 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-19 16:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-07-19 16:29 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-19 16:16 ` Richard Stallman
2024-07-19 18:00 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-17 21:26 ` Add elisa to GNU ELPA Sergey Kostyaev
2024-07-17 22:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-18 3:45 ` Sergey Kostyaev
2024-07-18 11:06 ` Sergey Kostyaev
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-07-23 20:00 Adding a generic mathematical library Kepa
2024-07-25 4:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-25 11:32 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-25 14:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-07-25 15:16 ` T.V Raman
2024-07-25 15:34 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-25 17:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-25 17:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-25 14:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-25 15:49 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-25 17:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-27 14:57 Shouran Ma
2024-07-27 15:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-27 19:07 Shouran Ma
2024-07-27 19:23 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-28 0:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-28 10:58 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-28 11:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-28 12:28 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-28 13:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-30 2:53 ` Richard Stallman
2024-07-30 3:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-30 6:26 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-30 7:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-30 11:30 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-30 22:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-31 16:00 ` Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
2024-07-31 21:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-08-01 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-01 6:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-31 21:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-27 19:40 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-28 0:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-28 13:34 ` Immanuel Litzroth
2024-07-28 13:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-28 14:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-28 10:46 ` Emanuel Berg
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