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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: joining
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-11-10 18:25:40
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On Monday 10 November 2003 13:02, Ariya Hidayat wrote:
> Also interesting if we can make use the Cephes math library (see
> www.netlib.org/cephes). At first glance, it contains many useful
> functions which could be implemented as KSpread built-in functions.
> AFAIK at the moment a KDE application named LabPlot already uses Cephes.
>
> If anyone can have a look at Cephes in details and draw some
> conclusions, that would be very helpful.

Well, as far as I can see, Cephes is not an arbitrarily precision library. 
Even the most precise functions offer only 336 bits, which is still a limited 
precision (even if high.)

So it is not the same as GnuMP.

>
> Note that one problem might soon arise with Cephes. Its license is
> "freely distributable". I don't know whether this will clash with LGPL
> as used in KSpread. If someone knows better, please enlighten me...

Personally, I miss something like "free to modify." :-(

>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ariya Hidayat
> http://ariya.pandu.org

Have a nice day!

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