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changeset 15698:ea2788117ee3
NEWS: Add notice about extending error functions to accept complex inputs.
* NEWS: Add notice about extending error functions to accept complex inputs.
* arith.txi: Use strict alphabetical ordering for list of special functions.
author | Rik <rik@octave.org> |
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date | Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:37:33 -0800 |
parents | 9811b32b645e |
children | 13d9c90b9cf8 |
files | NEWS doc/interpreter/arith.txi |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ commands with PKG_ADD and PKG_DEL statements. ** The m-files in the image directory have been overhauled. + The principal benefit is that Octave will now no longer automatically convert images stored with integers to doubles. Storing images as uint8 or uint16 requires only 1/8 or 1/4 the memory of an image stored using @@ -102,10 +103,18 @@ January 1st of the current year. The previous default was the current day, month, and year. This may produce changes in existing scripts. + ** The error function and its derivatives has been extended to accept complex + arguments. The following functions now accept complex inputs: + + erf erfc erfcx erfinv erfcinv + + In addition two new error functions erfi (imaginary error function) and + and dawson (scaled imaginary error function) have been added. + ** The default name of the Octave crash dump file is now called octave-workspace instead of octave-core. - ** The java package from Octave Forge is now part of Octave. The + ** The java package from Octave Forge is now part of core Octave. The following new functions are available for interacting with Java directly from Octave: @@ -129,10 +138,10 @@ ** Other new functions added in 3.8.0: - betaincinv erfcinv lines rgbplot - cmpermute findfigs polyeig shrinkfaces - cmunique fminsearch splinefit - colorcube iscolormap tetramesh + betaincinv dawson fminsearch rgbplot + cmpermute erfcinv iscolormap shrinkfaces + cmunique erfi lines splinefit + colorcube findfigs polyeig tetramesh ** Deprecated functions.