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Re: string <-> function code
- From: Dave Benson <daveb at ffem dot org>
- To: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:30:53 -0700
- Subject: Re: string <-> function code
- References: <20020911093106.V7991@luca.pas.lab>
so i made a rather large number of fixes and improvements;
rather than bothering the list with new versions,
just see:
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dbenson/mathfunction.html
for all the latest ;)
thanks,
dave
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:31:06AM -0700, Dave Benson wrote:
> i've been working on code which allows users
> to enter math expressions at runtime for a fair while.
>
> i recently decided to beef up the code to include
> differentiation and simplification.
>
> looking at the TODO list, i thought it might
> be nice if it could be in gsl.
>
> features:
> - the usual operators (including precedence), functions etc.
> - the functions map R^n => R.
> - fairly optimized
> - interface for users to add new functions, operators, simplifiers
> - in the gnu coding style already
> - license is no problem (since i'm the author, and i'll make it GPL.)
>
>
> problems:
> - uses glib 1.2 (the various typedefs and macros will have to
> be replaced with gsl equivalents -- i'm willing to do this)
> - no builtin support for matrix, complex, etc arguments
> (in a few cases complex numbers and fixed size matrices
> could be represented as arrays of reals, but that's ugly)
> - it could probably use a new name (currently MathFunction)
>
> you might check it out at:
> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dbenson/mathfunction-0.0.0.tar.gz
>
>
> any interest? what's required?
>
> - dave
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