Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!bennett From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Mathematica Bug Keywords: Math Bug Message-ID: <1991Mar6.044055.32272@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 6 Mar 91 04:40:55 GMT References: <1991Mar3.053006.2986@math.ucla.edu> <1991Mar4.035543.19802@wam.umd.edu> <1991Mar5.181203.11715@wam.umd.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 32 In article <1991Mar5.181203.11715@wam.umd.edu> charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher) writes: >Hopefully I can finish what I started. I was informed by NeXT the >the bug associated with the Tanh[x] is in the Motorola software >and will be fixed in 2.1. > >Related-I plotted tanh(x) using Gnuplot 2.02 compiled under 1.0. >There was no problem-it correctly plotted. I'm not sure why this >happens unless Gnuplot keeps all its math functions internal. Mark ....? If you built gnuplot with the Makefile that comes with it, that would explain it. If memory serves me, that Makefile does its compiles and linkedits with a -lm, so the BSD math library is available to resolve the function references. The sources do not #include , so no in-line transcendental instructions get generated. > >-Charlie >cwf@math.umd.edu Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG Systems Programming Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 60115 ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett@cs.niu.edu * * BITNET: A01SJB1@NIU * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "I, however, place economy among the first and most important * * of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the * * dangers to be feared." --Thomas Jefferson * **********************************************************************