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Currently open bug reports can be viewed <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=assigned&amp;status=new&amp;status=reopened&amp;component=math&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=status&amp;col=type&amp;col=milestone&amp;col=component&amp;order=priority" target="_top">here</a>.
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All bug reports including closed ones can be viewed <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=assigned&amp;status=closed&amp;status=new&amp;status=reopened&amp;component=math&amp;col=id&amp;col=summary&amp;col=status&amp;col=type&amp;col=milestone&amp;col=component&amp;order=priority" target="_top">here</a>.
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<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h0"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.math_2_5_1_boost_1_63"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.math_2_5_1_boost_1_63">Math-2.5.1
(Boost-1.63)</a>
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Patches:
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<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Fixed evaluation of zero polynomial in polynomial.hpp, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/12532" target="_top">12532</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed missing header include in boost/math/tools/tuple.hpp, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/12537" target="_top">12537</a>.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h1"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.math_2_5_0_boost_1_62"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.math_2_5_0_boost_1_62">Math-2.5.0
(Boost-1.62)</a>
</h5>
<p>
New Features:
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<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
Enabled all the special function code to work correctly with types whose
precision can change at runtime: for example type <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">mpfr_float</span></code>
from Boost.Multiprecision.
</li></ul></div>
<p>
Patches:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Fix tgamma_delta_ratio for cases where the delta is small compared to the
base.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix misc GCC-4.4 test failures.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h2"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.math_2_4_0_boost_1_61"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.math_2_4_0_boost_1_61">Math-2.4.0
(Boost-1.61)</a>
</h5>
<p>
New Features:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
Polynomial arithmetic added to tools.
</li></ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h3"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.math_2_3_0_boost_1_60"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.math_2_3_0_boost_1_60">Math-2.3.0
(Boost-1.60)</a>
</h5>
<p>
New Features:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Promote the root finding and function minimization code to first class
citizens - these are now officially supported as part of the library.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Allow the library to be used and tested with compiler exception handling
support turned off. To better facilitate this the default error handling
policies have been changed to <span class="emphasis"><em>errno_on_error</em></span> but only
when the compiler has no exception handling support.
</li>
</ul></div>
<p>
Patches:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Fix behaviour of the non-central chi-squared distribution when the non-centrality
parameter is zero to match the chi-squared, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11557" target="_top">11557</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix comments in code for the hypergeometric to match what it actually does,
also fixes the parameter access functions to return the correct values.
See <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11556" target="_top">11556</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Stopped using hidden visiblity library build with the Oracle compiler as
it leads to unresolved externals from the C++ standard library. See <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11547" target="_top">11547</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix unintended use of __declspec when building with Oracle C++. See <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11546" target="_top">11546</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix corner case bug in root bracketing code, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11532" target="_top">11532</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Add some missing typecasts in arguments to std::max in Bernoulli code.
See <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11453" target="_top">11453</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix mistaken assumptions about the possible values for FLT_EVAL_METHOD.
See <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11429" target="_top">11429</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Completely revamped performance testing and error-rate measuring code so
we can more easily document how well (or not!) we're doing. This information
will hopefully get more frequently updated in future as it's more or less
automatically generated - see the <span class="emphasis"><em>reporting</em></span> sub-directory
for more information.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix some corner cases in the beta, incomplete beta, and incomplete beta
derivative. With thanks to Rocco Romeo.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Reorganized the Bessel functions internally to improve the performance
of Jn and Yn.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed skewness formula for triangular distribution, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11768" target="_top">#11768</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed some examples so they compile on Unix platforms which have an ::exception
struct declared, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11827" target="_top">#11827</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Correct mistake in triangular distribution skewness formula <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11768" target="_top">11768</a>,
reported by Juan Leni.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h4"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.math_2_2_1"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.math_2_2_1">Math-2.2.1</a>
</h5>
<p>
Patch release for Boost-1.58:
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<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Minor <a href="https://github.com/boostorg/math/pull/13#issuecomment-98905579" target="_top">patch
for Haiku support.</a>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix the decimal digit count for 128-bit floating point types.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix a few documentation typos.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h5"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.math_2_2_0_boost_1_58_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.math_2_2_0_boost_1_58_0">Math-2.2.0
(boost-1.58.0)</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Added two new special functions - <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/trigamma.html" title="Trigamma">trigamma</a>
and <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/polygamma.html" title="Polygamma">polygamma</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed namespace scope constants so they are constexpr on conforming compilers,
see https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10901.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed various cases of spurious under/overflow in the incomplete beta and
gamma functions, plus the elliptic integrals, with thanks to Rocco Romeo.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix 3-arg <a class="link" href="sf_poly/legendre.html" title="Legendre (and Associated) Polynomials">legendre_p</a>
and <a class="link" href="sf_poly/legendre.html" title="Legendre (and Associated) Polynomials">legendre_q</a> functions
to not call the policy based overload if the final argument is not actually
a policy.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Cleaned up some dead code in the incomplete beta function, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10985" target="_top">#10985</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed extreme-value pdf for large valued inputs, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10938" target="_top">#10938</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Large update to the Elliptic integral code to use Carlson's latest algorithms
- these should be more stable, more accurate and slightly faster than before.
Also added support for Carlson's RG integral.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added <a class="link" href="ellint/ellint_d.html" title="Elliptic Integral D - Legendre Form">ellint_d</a>, <a class="link" href="ellint/jacobi_zeta.html" title="Jacobi Zeta Function">jacobi_zeta</a> and <a class="link" href="ellint/heuman_lambda.html" title="Heuman Lambda Function">heuman_lambda</a> elliptic
integrals.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Switched documentation to use SVG rather than PNG graphs and equations
- browsers seem to have finally caught up!
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h6"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.math_2_1_0_boost_1_57_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.math_2_1_0_boost_1_57_0">Math-2.1.0
(boost-1.57.0)</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Added <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/hyperexponential_dist.html" title="Hyperexponential Distribution">Hyperexponential
Distribution</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix some spurious overflows in the incomplete gamma functions (with thanks
to Rocco Romeo).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix bug in derivative of incomplete beta when a = b = 0.5 - this also effects
several non-central distributions, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10480" target="_top">10480</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed some corner cases in <a class="link" href="rounding/round.html" title="Rounding Functions">round</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Don't support 80-bit floats in cstdfloat.hpp if standard library support
is broken.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h7"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.math_2_0_0_boost_1_56_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.math_2_0_0_boost_1_56_0">Math-2.0.0
(Boost-1.56.0)</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
<span class="bold"><strong>Breaking change</strong></span>: moved a number of non-core
headers that are predominantly used for internal maintenance into <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">libs</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">include_private</span></code>. The headers effected
are <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">tools</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">test_data</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span></code>, <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">tools</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">remez</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span></code>,
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">constants</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">generate</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span></code>, <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">tools</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">solve</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span></code>,
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">tools</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">test</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span></code>. You can continue to use these headers
by adding <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">libs</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">include_private</span></code> to your compiler's include
path.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="bold"><strong>Breaking change</strong></span>: A number of distributions
and special functions were returning the maximum finite value rather than
raising an <a class="link" href="error_handling.html#math_toolkit.error_handling.overflow_error">overflow_error</a>,
this has now been fixed, which means these functions now behave as documented.
However, since the default behavior on raising an <a class="link" href="error_handling.html#math_toolkit.error_handling.overflow_error">overflow_error</a>
is to throw a <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">overflow_error</span></code> exception, applications
which have come to reply rely on these functions not throwing may experience
exceptions where they did not before. The special functions involved are
<a class="link" href="sf_gamma/igamma_inv.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Function Inverses">gamma_p_inva</a>,
<a class="link" href="sf_gamma/igamma_inv.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Function Inverses">gamma_q_inva</a>,
<a class="link" href="sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibeta_inva</a>,
<a class="link" href="sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibetac_inva</a>,
<a class="link" href="sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibeta_invb</a>,
<a class="link" href="sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibetac_invb</a>,
<a class="link" href="sf_gamma/igamma_inv.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Function Inverses">gamma_p_inv</a>, <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/igamma_inv.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Function Inverses">gamma_q_inv</a>. The distributions
involved are <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/pareto.html" title="Pareto Distribution">Pareto
Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/beta_dist.html" title="Beta Distribution">Beta
Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/geometric_dist.html" title="Geometric Distribution">Geometric
Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/negative_binomial_dist.html" title="Negative Binomial Distribution">Negative
Binomial Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/binomial_dist.html" title="Binomial Distribution">Binomial
Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/chi_squared_dist.html" title="Chi Squared Distribution">Chi
Squared Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/gamma_dist.html" title="Gamma (and Erlang) Distribution">Gamma
Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/inverse_chi_squared_dist.html" title="Inverse Chi Squared Distribution">Inverse
chi squared Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/inverse_gamma_dist.html" title="Inverse Gamma Distribution">Inverse
Gamma Distribution</a>. See <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10111" target="_top">#10111</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix <a class="link" href="rounding/round.html" title="Rounding Functions">round</a> and <a class="link" href="rounding/trunc.html" title="Truncation Functions">trunc</a> functions so they can
be used with integer arguments, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10066" target="_top">#10066</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix Halley iteration to handle zero derivative (with non-zero second derivative),
see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10046" target="_top">#10046</a>.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h8"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.math_1_9_1"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.math_1_9_1">Math-1.9.1</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Fix Geometric distribution use of Policies, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9833" target="_top">#9833</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix corner cases in the negative binomial distribution, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9834" target="_top">#9834</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix compilation failures on Mac OS.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h9"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.math_1_9_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.math_1_9_0">Math-1.9.0</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Changed version number to new Boost.Math specific version now that we're
in the modular Boost world.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added <a class="link" href="number_series/bernoulli_numbers.html" title="Bernoulli Numbers">Bernoulli
numbers</a>, changed arbitrary precision <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/tgamma.html" title="Gamma">tgamma</a>/<a class="link" href="sf_gamma/lgamma.html" title="Log Gamma">lgamma</a> to use Sterling's
approximation (from Nikhar Agrawal).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added first derivatives of the Bessel functions: <a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_derivatives.html" title="Derivatives of the Bessel Functions">cyl_bessel_j_prime</a>,
<a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_derivatives.html" title="Derivatives of the Bessel Functions">cyl_neumann_prime</a>,
<a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_derivatives.html" title="Derivatives of the Bessel Functions">cyl_bessel_i_prime</a>,
<a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_derivatives.html" title="Derivatives of the Bessel Functions">cyl_bessel_k_prime</a>,
<a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_derivatives.html" title="Derivatives of the Bessel Functions">sph_bessel_prime</a>
and <a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_derivatives.html" title="Derivatives of the Bessel Functions">sph_neumann_prime</a>
(from Anton Bikineev).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed buggy Student's t example code, along with docs for testing sample
means for equivalence.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Documented <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">max_iter</span></code> parameter
in root finding code better, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9225" target="_top">#9225</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Add option to explicitly enable/disable use of __float128 in constants
code, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9240" target="_top">#9240</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Cleaned up handling of negative values in Bessel I0 and I1 code (removed
dead code), see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9512" target="_top">#9512</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed handling of very small values passed to <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/tgamma.html" title="Gamma">tgamma</a>
and <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/lgamma.html" title="Log Gamma">lgamma</a> so they
don't generate spurious overflows (thanks to Rocco Romeo).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9672" target="_top">#9672 PDF and
CDF of a Laplace distribution throwing domain_error</a> Random variate
can now be infinite.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed several corner cases in <a class="link" href="factorials/sf_rising_factorial.html" title="Rising Factorial">rising_factorial</a>,
<a class="link" href="factorials/sf_falling_factorial.html" title="Falling Factorial">falling_factorial</a>
and <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/gamma_ratios.html" title="Ratios of Gamma Functions">tgamma_delta_ratio</a>
with thanks to Rocco Romeo.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed several corner cases in <a class="link" href="factorials/sf_rising_factorial.html" title="Rising Factorial">rising_factorial</a>,
<a class="link" href="factorials/sf_falling_factorial.html" title="Falling Factorial">falling_factorial</a>
and <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/gamma_ratios.html" title="Ratios of Gamma Functions">tgamma_delta_ratio</a>
(thanks to Rocco Romeo).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Removed constant <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">pow23_four_minus_pi</span>
</code> whose value did not match the name (and was unused by Boost.Math),
see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9712" target="_top">#9712</a>.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h10"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_55"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_55">Boost-1.55</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Suppress numerous warnings (mostly from GCC-4.8 and MSVC) <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8384" target="_top">#8384</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8855" target="_top">#8855</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9107" target="_top">#9107</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9109" target="_top">#9109</a>..
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed PGI compilation issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8333" target="_top">#8333</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed PGI constant value initialization issue that caused erf to generate
incorrect results <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8621" target="_top">#8621</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Prevent macro expansion of some C99 macros that are also C++ functions
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8732" target="_top">#8732</a>
and <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8733" target="_top">#8733</a>..
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed Student's T distribution to behave correctly with huge degrees of
freedom (larger than the largest representable integer) <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8837" target="_top">#8837</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Make some core functions usable with <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">long</span>
<span class="keyword">double</span></code> even when the platform has
no standard library <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">long</span> <span class="keyword">double</span></code> support <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8940" target="_top">#8940</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix error handling of distributions to catch invalid scale and location
parameters when the random variable is infinite <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9042" target="_top">#9042</a>
and <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9126" target="_top">#9126</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Add workaround for broken &lt;tuple&gt; in Intel C++ 14 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9087" target="_top">#9087</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Improve consistency of argument reduction in the elliptic integrals <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9104" target="_top">#9104</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix bug in inverse incomplete beta that results in cancellation errors
when the beta function is really an arcsine or Student's T distribution.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fix issue in Bessel I and K function continued fractions that causes spurious
over/underflow.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p class="simpara">
Add improvement to non-central chi squared distribution quantile due to
Thomas Luu, <a href="http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1482128/" target="_top">Fast and accurate
parallel computation of quantile functions for random number generation,
Doctorial Thesis 2016</a>. <a href="http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1463470/" target="_top">Efficient
and Accurate Parallel Inversion of the Gamma Distribution, Thomas Luu</a>
</p>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h11"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_54"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_54">Boost-1.54</a>
</h5>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Major reorganization to incorporate other Boost.Math like Integer Utilities
Integer Utilities (Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple),
quaternions and octonions. Making new chapter headings.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added many references to Boost.Multiprecision and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">cpp_dec_float_50</span></code>
as an example of a User-defined Type (UDT).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added Clang to list of supported compilers.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed constants to use a thread-safe cache of computed values when used
at arbitrary precision.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added finding zeros of Bessel functions <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">cyl_bessel_j_zero</span></code>,
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">cyl_neumann_zero</span></code>, <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">airy_ai_zero</span></code> and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">airy_bi_zero</span></code>(by
Christopher Kormanyos).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
More accuracy improvements to the Bessel J and Y functions from Rocco Romeo.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed nasty cyclic dependency bug that caused some headers to not compile
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7999" target="_top">#7999</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed bug in <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/tgamma.html" title="Gamma">tgamma</a>
that caused spurious overflow for arguments between 142.5 and 143.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed bug in raise_rounding_error that caused it to return an incorrect
result when throwing an exception is turned off <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7905" target="_top">#7905</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added minimal __float128 support.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed bug in edge-cases of poisson quantile <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8308" target="_top">#8308</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Adjusted heuristics used in Halley iteration to cope with inverting the
incomplete beta in tricky regions where the derivative is flatlining. Example
is computing the quantile of the Fisher F distribution for probabilities
smaller than machine epsilon. See ticket <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8314" target="_top">#8314</a>.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h12"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_53"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_53">Boost-1.53</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Fixed issues <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7325" target="_top">#7325</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7415" target="_top">#7415</a>
and <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7416" target="_top">#7416</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7183" target="_top">#7183</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7649" target="_top">#7649</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7694" target="_top">#7694</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4445" target="_top">#4445</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7492" target="_top">#7492</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7891" target="_top">#7891</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7429" target="_top">#7429</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed mistake in calculating pooled standard deviation in two-sample students
t example <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7402" target="_top">#7402</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Improve complex acos/asin/atan, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7290" target="_top">#7290</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7291" target="_top">#7291</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Improve accuracy in some corner cases of <a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_first.html" title="Bessel Functions of the First and Second Kinds">cyl_bessel_j</a>
and <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/igamma.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Functions">gamma_p</a>/<a class="link" href="sf_gamma/igamma.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Functions">gamma_q</a>
thanks to suggestions from Rocco Romeo.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Improve accuracy of Bessel J and Y for integer orders thanks to suggestions
from Rocco Romeo.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h13"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_52"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_52">Boost-1.52</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Corrected moments for small degrees of freedom <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7177" target="_top">#7177</a>
(reported by Thomas Mang).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added <a class="link" href="airy.html" title="Airy Functions">Airy functions</a> and <a class="link" href="jacobi.html" title="Jacobi Elliptic Functions">Jacobi Elliptic functions</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Corrected failure to detect bad parameters in many distributions <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6934" target="_top">#6934</a> (reported
by Florian Schoppmann) by adding a function check_out_of_range to test
many possible bad parameters. This test revealed several distributions
where the checks for bad parameters were ineffective, and these have been
rectified.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed issue in Hankel functions that causes incorrect values to be returned
for <span class="emphasis"><em>x &lt; 0</em></span> and &#957; odd, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7135" target="_top">#7135</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed issues <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6517" target="_top">#6517</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6362" target="_top">#6362</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7053" target="_top">#7053</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2693" target="_top">#2693</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6937" target="_top">#6937</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7099" target="_top">#7099</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Permitted infinite degrees of freedom <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7259" target="_top">#7259</a>
implemented using the normal distribution (requested by Thomas Mang).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Much enhanced accuracy for large degrees of freedom &#957; and/or large non-centrality
&#948;
by switching to use the Students t distribution (or Normal distribution
for infinite degrees of freedom) centered at delta, when &#948; / (4 * &#957;) &lt;
epsilon for the floating-point type in use. <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7259" target="_top">#7259</a>.
It was found that the incomplete beta was suffering from serious cancellation
errors when degrees of freedom was very large. (That has now been fixed
in our code, but any code based on Didonato and Morris's original papers
(probably every implementation out there actually) will have the same issue).
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h14"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_51"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_51">Boost-1.51</a>
</h5>
<p>
See Boost-1.52 - some items were added but not listed in time for the release.
</p>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h15"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_50"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_50">Boost-1.50</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Promoted math constants to be 1st class citizens, including convenient
access to the most widely used built-in float, double, long double via
three namespaces.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added the Owen's T function and Skew Normal distribution written by Benjamin
Sobotta: see <a class="link" href="owens_t.html" title="Owen's T function">Owens T</a> and skew_normal_distrib.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added Hankel functions <a class="link" href="hankel/cyl_hankel.html" title="Cyclic Hankel Functions">cyl_hankel_1</a>,
<a class="link" href="hankel/cyl_hankel.html" title="Cyclic Hankel Functions">cyl_hankel_2</a>, <a class="link" href="hankel/sph_hankel.html" title="Spherical Hankel Functions">sph_hankel_1</a> and <a class="link" href="hankel/sph_hankel.html" title="Spherical Hankel Functions">sph_hankel_2</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Corrected issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6627" target="_top">#6627
nonfinite_num_put formatting of 0.0 is incorrect</a> based on a patch
submitted by K R Walker.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Changed constant initialization mechanism so that it is thread safe even
for user-defined types, also so that user defined types get the full precision
of the constant, even when <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">long</span>
<span class="keyword">double</span></code> does not. So for example
128-bit rational approximations will work with UDT's and do the right thing,
even though <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">long</span> <span class="keyword">double</span></code>
may be only 64 or 80 bits.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed issue in <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">bessel_jy</span></code>
which causes Y<sub>8.5</sub>(4&#960;) to yield a NaN.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h16"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_49"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_49">Boost-1.49</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Deprecated wrongly named <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">twothirds</span></code>
math constant in favour of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">two_thirds</span></code>
(with underscore separator). (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6199" target="_top">#6199</a>).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Refactored test data and some special function code to improve support
for arbitary precision and/or expression-template-enabled types.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added new faster zeta function evaluation method.
</li>
</ul></div>
<p>
Fixed issues:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Corrected CDF complement for Laplace distribution (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6151" target="_top">#6151</a>).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Corrected branch cuts on the complex inverse trig functions, to handle
signed zeros (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6171" target="_top">#6171</a>).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed bug in <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">bessel_yn</span></code>
which caused incorrect overflow errors to be raised for negative <span class="emphasis"><em>n</em></span>
(issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6367" target="_top">#6367</a>).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Also fixed minor/cosmetic/configuration issues <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6120" target="_top">#6120</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6191" target="_top">#6191</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5982" target="_top">#5982</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6130" target="_top">#6130</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6234" target="_top">#6234</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6307" target="_top">#6307</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6192" target="_top">#6192</a>.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h17"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_48"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_48">Boost-1.48</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Added new series evaluation methods to the cyclic Bessel I, J, K and Y
functions. Also taken great care to avoid spurious over and underflow of
these functions. Fixes issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5560" target="_top">#5560</a>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added an example of using Inverse Chi-Squared distribution for Bayesian
statistics, provided by Thomas Mang.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added tests to use improved version of lexical_cast which handles C99 nonfinites
without using globale facets.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Corrected wrong out-of-bound uniform distribution CDF complement values
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5733" target="_top">#5733</a>.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Enabled long double support on OpenBSD (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6014" target="_top">#6014</a>).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Changed nextafter and related functions to behave in the same way as other
implementations - so that nextafter(+INF, 0) is a finite value (issue
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5823" target="_top">#5832</a>).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Changed tuple include configuration to fix issue when using in conjunction
with Boost.Tr1 (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5934" target="_top">#5934</a>).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Changed class eps_tolerance to behave correctly when both ends of the range
are zero (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6001" target="_top">#6001</a>).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed missing include guards on prime.hpp (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5927" target="_top">#5927</a>).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Removed unused/undocumented constants from constants.hpp (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5982" target="_top">#5982</a>).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed missing std:: prefix in nonfinite_num_facets.hpp (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5914" target="_top">#5914</a>).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Minor patches for Cray compiler compatibility.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h18"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_47"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_47">Boost-1.47</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Added changesign function to sign.hpp to facilitate addition of nonfinite
facets.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Addition of nonfinite facets from Johan Rade, with tests, examples of use
for C99 format infinity and NaN, and documentation.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added tests and documentation of changesign from Johan Rade.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h19"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_46_1"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_46_1">Boost-1.46.1</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
Fixed issues <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5095" target="_top">#5095</a>,
<a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5095" target="_top">#5113</a>.
</li></ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h20"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_46_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_46_0">Boost-1.46.0</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Added Wald, Inverse Gaussian and geometric distributions.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added information about configuration macros.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added support for mpreal as a real-numbered type.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h21"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_45_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_45_0">Boost-1.45.0</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Added warnings about potential ambiguity with std random library in distribution
and function names.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added inverse gamma distribution and inverse chi_square and scaled inverse
chi_square.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Editorial revision of documentation, and added FAQ.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h22"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_44_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_44_0">Boost-1.44.0</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Fixed incorrect range and support for Rayleigh distribution.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed numerical error in the quantile of the Student's T distribution:
the function was returning garbage values for non-integer degrees of freedom
between 2 and 3.
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h23"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_41_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_41_0">Boost-1.41.0</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
Significantly improved performance for the incomplete gamma function and
its inverse.
</li></ul></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.history2.h24"></a>
<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_40_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_40_0">Boost-1.40.0</a>
</h5>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
<li class="listitem">
Added support for MPFR as a bignum type.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added some full specializations of the policy classes to reduce compile
times.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added logistic and hypergeometric distributions, from Gautam Sewani's Google
Summer of Code project.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added Laplace distribution submitted by Thijs van den Berg.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Updated performance test code to include new distributions, and improved
the performance of the non-central distributions.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Added SSE2 optimised <a class="link" href="lanczos.html" title="The Lanczos Approximation">Lanczos approximation</a>
code, from Gautam Sewani's Google Summer of Code project.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Fixed bug in cyl_bessel_i that used an incorrect approximation for &#957; = 0.5,
also effects the non-central Chi Square Distribution when &#957; = 3, see bug
report <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2877" target="_top">#2877</a>.
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Fixed minor bugs <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2873" target="_top">#2873</a>.
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Added Johan R&#229;de's optimised floating point classification routines.
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Fixed code so that it compiles in GCC's -pedantic mode (bug report <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1451" target="_top">#1451</a>).
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<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_37_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_37_0">Boost-1.37.0</a>
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Improved accuracy and testing of the inverse hypergeometric functions.
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<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_36_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.boost_1_36_0">Boost-1.36.0</a>
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Added Noncentral Chi Squared Distribution.
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Added Noncentral Beta Distribution.
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Added Noncentral F Distribution.
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Added Noncentral T Distribution.
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Added Exponential Integral Functions.
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Added Zeta Function.
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Added Rounding and Truncation functions.
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Added Compile time powers of runtime bases.
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Added SSE2 optimizations for Lanczos evaluation.
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Added Policy based framework that allows fine grained control over function
behaviour.
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<span class="bold"><strong>Breaking change:</strong></span> Changed default behaviour
for domain, pole and overflow errors to throw an exception (based on review
feedback), this behaviour can be customised using <a class="link" href="../policy.html" title="Chapter&#160;15.&#160;Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">Policy</a>'s.
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<span class="bold"><strong>Breaking change:</strong></span> Changed exception thrown
when an internal evaluation error occurs to boost::math::evaluation_error.
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<span class="bold"><strong>Breaking change:</strong></span> Changed discrete quantiles
to return an integer result: this is anything up to 20 times faster than
finding the true root, this behaviour can be customised using <a class="link" href="../policy.html" title="Chapter&#160;15.&#160;Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">Policy</a>'s.
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<li class="listitem">
Polynomial/rational function evaluation is now customisable and hopefully
faster than before.
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Added performance test program.
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</ul></div>
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4: Second Review Candidate (1st March 2007)</a>
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Moved Xiaogang Zhang's Bessel Functions code into the library, and brought
them into line with the rest of the code.
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Added C# "Distribution Explorer" demo application.
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</ul></div>
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3: First Review Candidate (31st Dec 2006)</a>
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Implemented the main probability distribution and density functions.
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Implemented digamma.
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Added more factorial functions.
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<li class="listitem">
Implemented the Hermite, Legendre and Laguerre polynomials plus the spherical
harmonic functions from TR1.
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<li class="listitem">
Moved Xiaogang Zhang's elliptic integral code into the library, and brought
them into line with the rest of the code.
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Moved Hubert Holin's existing Boost.Math special functions into this library
and brought them into line with the rest of the code.
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</ul></div>
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<span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history2.milestone_2_released_september_1"></a></span><a class="link" href="history2.html#math_toolkit.history2.milestone_2_released_september_1">Milestone
2: Released September 10th 2006</a>
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Implement preview release of the statistical distributions.
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Added statistical distributions tutorial.
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<li class="listitem">
Implemented root finding algorithms.
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Implemented the inverses of the incomplete gamma and beta functions.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Rewrite erf/erfc as rational approximations (valid to 128-bit precision).
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Integrated the statistical results generated from the test data with Boost.Test:
uses a database of expected results, indexed by test, floating point type,
platform, and compiler.
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<li class="listitem">
Improved lgamma near 1 and 2 (rational approximations).
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<li class="listitem">
Improved erf/erfc inverses (rational approximations).
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Implemented Rational function generation (the Remez method).
</li>
</ul></div>
<h5>
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1: Released March 31st 2006</a>
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Implement gamma/beta/erf functions along with their incomplete counterparts.
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<li class="listitem">
Generate high quality test data, against which future improvements can
be judged.
</li>
<li class="listitem">
Provide tools for the evaluation of infinite series, continued fractions,
and rational functions.
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<li class="listitem">
Provide tools for testing against tabulated test data, and collecting statistics
on error rates.
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Provide sufficient docs for people to be able to find their way around
the library.
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