Name for Bessel functions (Re: [Maxima] cvs-maxima tests)
Subject: Name for Bessel functions (Re: [Maxima] cvs-maxima tests)
From: James Amundson
Date: 22 May 2002 17:42:03 -0500
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:20, Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:
>
> James> Thanks. Don't forget rtest6a.mac.
>
> Oops. Forgot about that. Done.
>
> As I explained, since Maxima already had %j, %k and %ibes (docs say
> %i, but it's really %ibes) functions, I added simplifiers for these
> instead of using the names bessel_j, etc., that Macsyma uses.
>
> Is this acceptable? Do we want to support bessel_j instead? Or, I
> can probably have bessel_j be recognized but converted to %j instead.
I, personally, prefer bessel_j to %j. I would appreciate hearing
comments from the others on the list.
--Jim