Re: Java API for MATHML

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Paul Libbrecht wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:43:43 +0100
> From: Paul Libbrecht <paul@activemath.org>
> To: www-math@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Java API for MATHML
> Resent-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:44:05 -0500 (EST)
> Resent-From: www-math@w3.org
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>
> Stan Devitt wrote:
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> >The content definitions for the arc trig functions
> >used in appendix C were largely based on Abromovitz
> >and Stegun, Section 4.4  -- see, for example,
> >
> >http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-MathML2-20021219/appendixc.html#cdef.arccos
> >
> >and more generally, were chosen to be consistent
> >with OpenMath.
> >
> >
> Actually which version of Abromovitz and Stegun ?
> I hear some noise that the definition of arccot has been changed between
> versions.

If you check the Description child of CD, you will note that it says:

"They are defined as in Abromowitz and Stegun (ninth
    printing on), with precise reductions to logs in the case of
    inverse functions."

this is a relic of NAHG, so I take no responsiblity ;-) However it seems
to me fairly precise ... no? Anyway as I said in a previous mail check out
transc3 if you want the multivalued functions.

> MathML having decided not to specify the definition domain... this may
> be a problem, or ??

I guess that MathML decided to religate these more 'mathematically
pedantic' issues to some other mechanism viz. OpenMath

> (hence my request for any new system built with compatibility in mind to
> declare >precisely< its compatibility).

we can but hope!

cheers,

Bill

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> Paul
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