Re: [boost] [metamath] Plans for compile time double

From: Chris Weed (chrisweed_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-29 17:18:07

On 8/27/05, Peder Holt <peder.holt_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 8/26/05, Chris Weed <chrisweed_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was wonder what the plans are for the compile time double library, metamath.
> > Is there a plan to develop compile time versions of the functions in
> > math.h, such as sin, cos, pow, abs, etc.?
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> 
> That was the plan, yes. An implementation of some math functions
> already exists under
> http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/ <expaler/mpl_math.zip>
> I have modified the sine function to work with the compile time double
> library, but the main problem has been lack of time.
> I will try to find time to implement more math metafunctions, but help
> is welcome.
> 
> Attached are implementations of sine and power (only integral
> exponents supported for now)
> 
> Regards,
> Peder
> 

Hi,
I would like to help out with this. Was the plan to implement most of
the trigonometric functions with taylor expansions or some other
algorithm?
Chris