Hi,
I'd like to provide some feedback on the more math functions proposal
[1] (and the most recent PDF at the top of the page)
The hypot and hypot2 functions accept 2 or 3 arguments, but I don't see
a reason why they wouldn't accept an unbounded number of arguments.
Although the physical world can be accurately enough described in 3
dimensions, math folks sometimes think in abstract N-dimension spaces
and compute euclidian distances in these spaces.
JS Engines are still free to heavily optimize the common case of 2 or 3
arguments.
I'd like to talk about naming as well. "hypot" (for "Hypotenuse") is an
accurate name for the 2 dimension case, but much less for 3 dimensions
as far as I know (the English wikipedia page [2] doesn't mention the 3D
case either) and even less for N-dimension.
I think it would make sense to rename it. Maybe "euclidianDistance" (too
long?), "distance" [3] (accurate mathematically, but may sound vague in
the broader context of JavaScript), "eucl" (too cryptic?), other?
David
[1] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:more_math_functions
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothenuse
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance#Geometry
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