Subject: renaming undocumented Bessel functions g0, g1, gn
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:44:52 -0400
On 8/8/06, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
>
> >> Why not call them scaled_bessel_i?
> However, maybe we should just get rid of them completely? Maxima
> doesn't know any mathematical properties of these functions ...
> If we told Maxima the properties of such functions, then it would make
> sense to keep them.
>
Maxima works best when there is a canonical representation of a mathematical
concept. That way, not only can all the knowledge about the concept itself
be in one place, but all other concepts which interact with it only need to
know one version.