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From: Andrey Semashev (andysem_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-25 13:56:27


Hello John,

Sunday, December 24, 2006, 12:06:00 AM, you wrote:

> I noticed one file
> (http://www.boost.org/boost/random/normal_distribution.hpp) asked for
> mathematical constants (pi, e, phi, etc) in boost.

>

> Which constants other than perhaps those would the boost community want?
> Is there interest in a library of mathematical constants?

>

> It also seems that there is no statistics library (i.e. functions to
> compute mean, variance, moments, skew, kurtosis, median, mode,
> quartiles, etc. from samples or histograms). Would the boost
> community be interested in these sorts of functions?

I think such features could be a nice addition to the Boost.Math
library.

-- 
Best regards,
 Andrey                            mailto:andysem_at_[hidden]

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