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</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
- Carlson's algorithms are essentially unchanged from Xiaogang Zhang's Google
- Summer of Code student project, and are based on Carlson's original papers.
- However, Carlson has revised his algorithms since then (refer to the references
- in the elliptic integral docs for a list), to improve performance and accuracy,
- we may be able to take advantage of these improvements too (Low Priority).
- </li>
-<li class="listitem">
[para Carlson's algorithms (mainly R<sub>J</sub>) are somewhat prone to internal overflow/underflow
when the arguments are very large or small. The homogeneity relations:]
[para R<sub>F</sub>(ka, kb, kc) = k<sup>-1/2</sup> R<sub>F</sub>(a, b, c)] [para and] [para R<sub>J</sub>(ka, kb, kc,
@@ -111,31 +104,14 @@
provided the problem domains can be accurately identified. (Medium Priority).]
</li>
<li class="listitem">
- Carlson's R<sub>C</sub> can be reduced to elementary funtions (asin and log), would
- it be more efficient evaluated this way, rather than by Carlson's algorithms?
- (Low Priority).
- </li>
-<li class="listitem">
- Should we add an implementation of Carlson's R<sub>G</sub>? It's not required for
- the Legendre form integrals, but some people may find it useful (Low Priority).
- </li>
-<li class="listitem">
- There are a several other integrals: D(&#966;, k), Z(&#946;, k), &#923;<sub>0</sub>(&#946;, k) and Bulirsch's
- <span class="emphasis"><em>el</em></span> functions that could be implemented using Carlson's
- integrals (Low Priority).
+ There are a several other integrals: Bulirsch's <span class="emphasis"><em>el</em></span>
+ functions that could be implemented using Carlson's integrals (Low Priority).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
The integrals K(k) and E(k) could be implemented using rational approximations
(both for efficiency and accuracy), assuming we can find them. (Medium
Priority).
</li>
-<li class="listitem">
- There is a sub-domain of <a class="link" href="ellint/ellint_3.html" title="Elliptic Integrals of the Third Kind - Legendre Form">ellint_3</a>
- that is unimplemented (see the docs for details), currently it's not clear
- how to solve this issue, or if it's ever likely to be an real problem in
- practice - especially as most other implementations don't support this
- domain either (Medium Priority).
- </li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
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Requests</a>
</h5>
<p>
+ We have a request for the Lambert W function, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11027" target="_top">#11027</a>.
+ </p>
+<p>
The following table lists distributions that are found in other packages but
which are not yet present here, the more frequently the distribution is found,
the higher the priority for implementing it: