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Math-NumberCruncher-4.04
River stage one • 1 direct dependent • 1 total dependent
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Changes for version 4.04 - 2002-01-02

  • Added Ln(), which calculates the natural log of a number to a given number of decimal places.
  • Added Exp(), which performs the inverse of Ln().
  • Added Root2(), which calculates the N-th root of a given number using logarithms, rather than Newton's Method, which is what is used in Root(). Root2() allows you to specify the number of decimal places wanted. For particularly large number and/or roots, Root2() is sometimes faster and/or more accurate.
  • Made significant optimization to Root(). It is now more accurate and substantially faster than v4.03. Thanks to the folks at perlmonks.org for their input on the optimization.
  • Modified SqrRoot() to use Root(), rather than separate code.
  • Added PythagTriples() and PythagTriplesSeq().
  • Special thanks to Douglas Wilson for allowing me to borrow his code for Ln(), Exp(), Root2(), and the various other "behind-the-scenes" functions for same. Douglas's code is based on an algorithm described at http://www.geocities.com/zabrodskyvlada/aat/.

Modules

Math::NumberCruncher
Very useful, commonly needed math/statistics/geometric functions.

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