Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!ub!ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu!v087mxgb From: v087mxgb@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Shawn E Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: intrinsic Keywords: intrinsic list Message-ID: <52146@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 18 Dec 90 15:38:04 GMT References: <52072@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <2889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Reply-To: v087mxgb@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS V1.3-4.4 In article <2889@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) writes... >In article <52072@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes: > >The SQRT (DSQRT, CSQRT) function, which you list under "transcendentals", is >not transcendental. The trig functions, and several others in your list that >you do not classify as "transcendental," are in fact transcendental. > >Transcendental, by definition, means "not algebraic." > According to your statement, anything NOT algebraic....well SQRT is not an algebraic function......TRIG functions are.... besides, *I* didn't classify them! I merely copied my Lahey manual.... Shawn E. Thompson "..my sig file was so long, I'm not even allowed a quote..." v087mxgb@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu | set@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu University @ Buffalo|Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering CAD Engineering|Leica, Inc.|PO Box 123|Buffalo, NY 14240-0123|(716)891-3375