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NIST Releases Updated Handbook of Math Functions

Posted by kdawson on from the essential-reference dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NIST announced the publishing of the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions reference text (967 pp), also available in digital form at the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions. Access it with a MathML-enabled browser (Firefox or IE+plugin) to view equations as scalable text rather than bitmaps; the 3-D graphs can also be viewed with a VRML plugin for local rotating / zooming." The original Handbook of Mathematical Functions was published 46 years ago; the revision has been in the works for a decade.

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  1. Ob by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let the number of the post be defined by a monotonically increasing function f, such that the initial value of f is zero.

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    1. Re:Ob by SoVeryTired · · Score: 4, Funny

      f(x) = x satisfies that condition.

      Perhaps you meant monotonically decreasing nonnegative function on the nonnegative reals with f(0) = 0, or something to that effect...

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  2. 42 by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's all you need to know about maths.

  3. 967 pages? by ProdigyPuNk · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would take forever to actually read through... I guess if you understand most of these functions you don't have to worry about a wife or girlfriend anyway...

  4. Re:VRML! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wouldn't bet on it either, for the same reason modern games aren't supplied in DOOM WAD files.

  5. Re:From my experience... by Bromskloss · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not a textbook; it assumes you basically know the math

    That applies to every math book out there.

    No, there is at least one mathematics book for which the statement does not hold. I don't have a constructive proof for this my claim, though, so I can't give you an example.

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  6. 967 pages of mirth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I finally got around to reading the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions.

    Turns out the Zeta function did it.

  7. Only on Slashdot by Frequency+Domain · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was trying to make a funny, a play on the mathematical term "singular". Instead, I got modded insightful and started a flamewar. Ain't Slashdot wonderful?