A brief history: I wrote the asinh and acosh functions for the math (or was it cmath?) for python 2.0. It fixed some problems of GVR implementation, but still it was far from perfect, and replaced shortly after. My 1/4 cent tip: Do not rush --- find a good code.
Nadav ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Bakker [[email protected]] Sent: 28 January 2011 12:45 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] Error in tanh for large complex argument Good point, so we need a better solution that fixes all cases >> I'll file a ticket. >> >> Incidentally, if tanh(z) is simply programmed as >> >> (1.0 - exp(-2.0*z)) / (1.0 + exp(-2.0*z)) >This will overflow as z -> -\infty. The solution is probably to use a >different expression for Re(z) < 0, and to check how other libraries do >this in case the above still misses something. > > Pauli
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