Airy function confusion



Hello David,

>  - what should the functions be called?
>      Maple uses AiryAi and Airy Bi.
>      I propose airyai and airybi (unless be want to go case
> sensitive)  

The Bessel functions are named bessel_j, bessel_y, etc.
Also there are legendre_p, legendre_q, etc.
How about airy_ai and airy_bi ?

>  - what should the derivative functione be called?
>      Maple does AiryAi(1,x) = D(AiryAi)(x) and AiryBi(1,x) =
> D(AiryBi)(x). (yuk)
>      What about dairyai and dairybi?

How about airy_dai and airy_dbi ? 

I am thinking in all cases the name is the collective 
name (airy) followed by a short particular name.

regards,
Robert Dodier


		
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