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authorBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2016-05-18 15:53:35 +0200
committerBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2016-06-13 12:05:57 +0200
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Update STDLIB documentation
Language cleaned up by the technical writers xsipewe and tmanevik from Combitech. Proofreading and corrections by Björn Gustavsson and Hans Bolinder.
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diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/math.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/math.xml
index 38084638f6..1358ce5cbf 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/math.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/math.xml
@@ -30,78 +30,86 @@
<docno>1</docno>
<approved>Bjarne D&auml;cker</approved>
<checked></checked>
- <date>97-01-15</date>
+ <date>1997-01-15</date>
<rev>B</rev>
- <file>math.sgml</file>
+ <file>math.xml</file>
</header>
<module>math</module>
- <modulesummary>Mathematical Functions</modulesummary>
+ <modulesummary>Mathematical functions.</modulesummary>
<description>
<p>This module provides an interface to a number of mathematical
functions.</p>
+
<note>
- <p>Not all functions are implemented on all platforms. In particular,
- the <c>erf/1</c> and <c>erfc/1</c> functions are not implemented on Windows.</p>
+ <p>Not all functions are provided on all platforms. In particular,
+ the <seealso marker="#erf/1"><c>erf/1</c></seealso> and
+ <seealso marker="#erfc/1"><c>erfc/1</c></seealso> functions
+ are not provided on Windows.</p>
</note>
</description>
+
<funcs>
<func>
- <name name="pi" arity="0"/>
- <fsummary>A useful number</fsummary>
- <desc>
- <p>A useful number.</p>
- </desc>
- </func>
- <func>
- <name name="sin" arity="1"/>
- <name name="cos" arity="1"/>
- <name name="tan" arity="1"/>
- <name name="asin" arity="1"/>
<name name="acos" arity="1"/>
+ <name name="acosh" arity="1"/>
+ <name name="asin" arity="1"/>
+ <name name="asinh" arity="1"/>
<name name="atan" arity="1"/>
<name name="atan2" arity="2"/>
- <name name="sinh" arity="1"/>
- <name name="cosh" arity="1"/>
- <name name="tanh" arity="1"/>
- <name name="asinh" arity="1"/>
- <name name="acosh" arity="1"/>
<name name="atanh" arity="1"/>
+ <name name="cos" arity="1"/>
+ <name name="cosh" arity="1"/>
<name name="exp" arity="1"/>
<name name="log" arity="1"/>
- <name name="log2" arity="1"/>
<name name="log10" arity="1"/>
+ <name name="log2" arity="1"/>
<name name="pow" arity="2"/>
+ <name name="sin" arity="1"/>
+ <name name="sinh" arity="1"/>
<name name="sqrt" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Diverse math functions</fsummary>
- <type variable="X" name_i="7"/>
- <type variable="Y" name_i="7"/>
+ <name name="tan" arity="1"/>
+ <name name="tanh" arity="1"/>
+ <fsummary>Diverse math functions.</fsummary>
+ <type variable="X" name_i="6"/>
+ <type variable="Y" name_i="6"/>
<desc>
- <p>A collection of math functions which return floats. Arguments
- are numbers. </p>
+ <p>A collection of mathematical functions that return floats. Arguments
+ are numbers.</p>
</desc>
</func>
+
<func>
<name name="erf" arity="1"/>
<fsummary>Error function.</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p>Returns the error function of <c><anno>X</anno></c>, where</p>
+ <p>Returns the error function of <c><anno>X</anno></c>, where:</p>
<pre>
-erf(X) = 2/sqrt(pi)*integral from 0 to X of exp(-t*t) dt. </pre>
+erf(X) = 2/sqrt(pi)*integral from 0 to X of exp(-t*t) dt.</pre>
</desc>
</func>
+
<func>
<name name="erfc" arity="1"/>
- <fsummary>Another error function</fsummary>
+ <fsummary>Another error function.</fsummary>
<desc>
- <p><c>erfc(X)</c> returns <c>1.0 - erf(X)</c>, computed by
- methods that avoid cancellation for large <c><anno>X</anno></c>. </p>
+ <p><c>erfc(X)</c> returns <c>1.0</c> - <c>erf(X)</c>, computed by
+ methods that avoid cancellation for large <c><anno>X</anno></c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
+
+ <func>
+ <name name="pi" arity="0"/>
+ <fsummary>A useful number.</fsummary>
+ <desc>
+ <p>A useful number.</p>
+ </desc>
+ </func>
+
</funcs>
<section>
- <title>Bugs</title>
- <p>As these are the C library, the bugs are the same.</p>
+ <title>Limitations</title>
+ <p>As these are the C library, the same limitations apply.</p>
</section>
</erlref>