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Dieter Kaiser wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 16:17 -0500 schrieb Raymond Toy:
>> Michael Abshoff wrote:
>>> Mhhh, maybe I did not name the right package? I am referring to the 
>>> recent work of Dieter Kaiser implementing more special functions and I 
>>> do recall him increasing the number of bits used internally for some 
>>> computations to ensure identical results on various lisps.
>>>   

Hi Dieter,

>> There was some discussion about the gamma function, but I think
>> increasing the number of bits wasn't actually done.
>> As far as I know, the bigfloat implementations of the special functions
>> are truly identical.

> We have added four digits to fpprec for the calculation of the Gamma
> function in bigfloat and complex bigfloat precision. We have done that
> to increase the precsion of the algorithm itself. There were no problems
> with different Lisps.
> 
> Yes, the numerical algorithm for the implemented special functions in
> float or bigfloat precison are identical.

Thanks for clearing that up.

> Dieter Kaiser

Cheers,

Michael

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