On 4/5/10 9:17 PM, Barton Willis wrote:
> It would be great if there was a definitive guide to writing simplifying functions.
> There are plenty of examples, but no how-to manual that I know of; some topics
> that come to mind:
>
> (1) nouns and verbs,
> (2) autoloading simplifying functions,
> (3) simplification--how much is too much,
> (4) reflection rules,
> (5) binary64 & bigfloat evaluation,
> (6) extras: gradef, conjugates, limits, TeX properties, antiderivatives,
> (7) declaring function properties (complex, ...),
> (8) domain and wrong number of argument errors,
>
I could certainly use such a guide.
What is binary64 evaluation?
Ray