[sage-devel] elliptic_e(0.5, 0.1) differs from Mathematica 7 by about 0.04%.
Subject: [sage-devel] elliptic_e(0.5, 0.1) differs from Mathematica 7 by about 0.04%.
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:27:04 -0700
William Stein wrote:
>
>
> ... someone (who? William?) said
>
> This is one of
> >> the DoD requirements for Sage -- they absolutely will never
> consider using
> >> CMUCL or SBCL (I have asked).
>
Could you perhaps quote for us the DoD requirements? (and who requires
them).
I have never heard such a statement before, and wonder about the
context for this, as well as whether there are other requirements.
RJF