Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

[Simon Cozens]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 12:00:24PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Okay, I'm whipping together the "fancy math" section of the interpreter 
> assembly language. I've got:
> 
> sin, cos, tan         : Plain ones
> asin, acos, atan      : arc-whatevers
> shinh, cosh, tanh     : Hyperbolic whatevers
> log2, log10, log      : Base 2, base 10, and explicit base logarithms
> pow                   : Raise x to the y power
> 
> Can anyone think of things I've forgotten? It's been a while since I've 
> done numeric work.

FWIW, it's just dawned on me that if we want all of these things to be
overloadable by PMCs, they need to have vtable entries. The PMC vtable
is going to be considerably bigger than we anticipated.

Simon