Dear Brian, > Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:04:00 +0100 > From: Brian Gough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello, > > Thanks for your email. If you want an unambiguous name then using > mpfr_li2 would probably be the best choice.
this seems indeed the right thing to do. > I believe the reason that GSL uses the name gsl_sf_dilog is that the > dilogarithm is most commonly (correctly?) defined as Li2, and A&S is > in the minority calling the Spence integral a dilogarithm. > > I've cc'ed this email to Gerard Jungman the original author of the GSL > dilogarithm function for any further comments. > > -- > Brian Gough > > GNU Scientific Library - > http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ Thank you for your feedback. Best regards, Paul Zimmermann _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
