On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 02:16:20PM +0200, Theo Buehler wrote: > It may be somewhat interesting to mention why expm1(x) = exp(x) - 1 and > log1p(x) = log(1 + x) are provided and what their historical purpose is. > However, as mlarkin@ put it: are any of our users of exp(3) going to > seriously be asking themselves "hmm, is OpenBSD's exp compatible with > BASIC on the HP-71B?"
The wording change also changes the semantics quite a bit. The old wording explained where the name came from and what the function does. The new wording implies somewhat that the functions are obsolete, which is far from true. Joerg
