On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 04:30:10PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 03:34:04PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > 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. > > Huh ? > "computes the value ... accurately even for tiny arguments". > > That's quite enough as far as a function description goes.
Look at the changed NOTES section. The rest is fine. Joerg
