In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mathias Waack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> 
|> > There's 
|> > a lot of somewhat obscure mathematical stuff that got into the standard
|> > C lib. How often do you need Bessel functions?
|> 
|> Maybe each day. What is a Bessel function?;)

Some people use them all the time; there are specific physical problems 
where they are fundamental.  I have never used them, in 40 years of
wide-ranging experience in the scientific computing arena!  


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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