Subject: renaming undocumented Bessel functions g0, g1, gn
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:28:32 -0400
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
Robert> On 7/22/06, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> They are mentioned in the commercial Macsyma documentation.
>> They are Modified Bessel functions 1st kind, times exp(-|X|) G0(X), G1(X),
>> GN(X,N)
>>
>> They are not really bessel functions, or are they??
Robert> Well, bessel_foo seems close enough. I agree they're not exactly
Robert> Bessel functions but they're certainly pretty close.
Why not call them scaled_bessel_i? bessel_g is pretty confusing,
because there's no commonly called Bessel function G, but bessel_i,
bessel_y, etc, make sense because there are Bessel functions I, Y,
etc.
Ray