Walter,
A good use of your skills. I commend you on your work. But, I can't over
any help.
--
Mark Miesfeld
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Walter Pachl
<christel.u.w.pa...@chello.at>wrote:
> Rxm
> 5 March 2014
>
>
>
> The distribution of ooRexx contains a function package called rxMath that
> provides the computation of trigonometric and some other functions.
>
> Based on the underlying c-library the precision of the returned values is
> limited to 16 digits.
>
> Close observation show that sometimes the last one or two digits of the
> returned values are not correct.
>
> Many years ago I experimented with implementing these functions in Rexx
> with its virtually unlimited precision.
>
> The rxm class is intended to provide the same functionality as rxMath with
> no limit on the specified or implied precision.
>
> While I tried to get full compatibility there remain a few (actually very
> few) differences:
>
>
>
> - RxCalcTan(90) raises the Syntax condition
>
> - rxCalcexp(x) limits x to 709. or so.
>
>
>
> Handling of syntactically incorrect arguments is still to be finished!
>
>
>
> The program testexp.rex shows what I have coded so far.
>
> You can see the 3 discrepancies when comparing rxm and rxMath.
>
> The surprise (disappointment) is that *condition('D')* returns nothing
> whatsoever
>
>
>
> Any help / advice / critique would be highly appreciated
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Walter
>
>
>
> PS rxmexp etc. will eventually be changed to rxCalcexp to become
> compatible with rxMath!
>
>
>
>
>
> Find the program at
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9v939j55ikderfx/SYLv80C-wP?n=132389230
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Oorexx-devel mailing list
> Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Oorexx-devel mailing list
Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
