> From: Dan Bron > > > Could somebody please tell me > > what "A&S 26.2.16" means? > > A&S is Abramowitz and Stegun, a mathematical reference. It is a > collection of common/useful mathematical formulae, and 26.2.16 is one > of those formulae. > > BTW, I am not a mathematician, so I don't know how familiar the work is > in that community, but it certainly gets a lot of citations in the J > Forum and the APL community generally (and Ken and Roger's posts/papers > in particular, in my experience).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramowitz_and_Stegun The Wikipedia entry for the book provides some of that context: "The Handbook is likely the most widely distributed and most cited NIST technical publication of all time. Government sales exceed 150,000 copies, and an estimated three times as many have been reprinted and sold by commercial publishers since 1965. During the mid-1990s, the book was cited every 1.5 hours of each working day. And its influence will persist as it is currently being updated in digital format by NIST." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
