Subject: renaming undocumented Bessel functions g0, g1, gn
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:42:12 -0400
>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> writes:
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
Robert> On 8/18/06, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
>>> Would you like to make these changes for the imminent 5.10 release?
>>> That is, rename them to bessel_scaled_i<foo>, correct the couple of
>>> known bugs, and write up some (very brief) documentation?
Robert> Well, since these functions are pretty obscure I don't see a need to
Robert> modify the release branch. How about if you commit the changes to
Robert> the cvs main trunk.
Raymond> Fair enough. I'll do that.
Ok. I see the 5.10 release branch has bessel_g0. But I think we
wanted scaled_bessel_i0, scaled_bessel_i1, scaled_bessel_i, for g0,
g1, gn, respectively.
I assume we want 5.10 and CVS to be the same.
And I think scaled_bessel_i(n,x) = exp(-abs(x)) * bessel_i(n,x) since
bessel_i is an even function. Previously, we said
exp(-x)*bessel_i(n,x).
Ray