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29<p>
30 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>.
31 </p>
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33 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>.
34 </p>
35<h5>
36<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h0"></a>
37 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.math_2_5_1_boost_1_63"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.math_2_5_1_boost_1_63">Math-2.5.1
38 (Boost-1.63)</a>
39 </h5>
40<p>
41 Patches:
42 </p>
43<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
44<li class="listitem">
45 Fixed evaluation of zero polynomial in polynomial.hpp, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/12532" target="_top">12532</a>.
46 </li>
47<li class="listitem">
48 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>.
49 </li>
50</ul></div>
51<h5>
52<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h1"></a>
53 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.math_2_5_0_boost_1_62"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.math_2_5_0_boost_1_62">Math-2.5.0
54 (Boost-1.62)</a>
55 </h5>
56<p>
57 New Features:
58 </p>
59<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
60 Enabled all the special function code to work correctly with types whose
61 precision can change at runtime: for example type <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">mpfr_float</span></code>
62 from Boost.Multiprecision.
63 </li></ul></div>
64<p>
65 Patches:
66 </p>
67<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
68<li class="listitem">
69 Fix tgamma_delta_ratio for cases where the delta is small compared to the
70 base.
71 </li>
72<li class="listitem">
73 Fix misc GCC-4.4 test failures.
74 </li>
75</ul></div>
76<h5>
77<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h2"></a>
78 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.math_2_4_0_boost_1_61"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.math_2_4_0_boost_1_61">Math-2.4.0
79 (Boost-1.61)</a>
80 </h5>
81<p>
82 New Features:
83 </p>
84<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
85 Polynomial arithmetic added to tools.
86 </li></ul></div>
87<h5>
88<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h3"></a>
89 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.math_2_3_0_boost_1_60"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.math_2_3_0_boost_1_60">Math-2.3.0
90 (Boost-1.60)</a>
91 </h5>
92<p>
93 New Features:
94 </p>
95<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
96<li class="listitem">
97 Promote the root finding and function minimization code to first class
98 citizens - these are now officially supported as part of the library.
99 </li>
100<li class="listitem">
101 Allow the library to be used and tested with compiler exception handling
102 support turned off. To better facilitate this the default error handling
103 policies have been changed to <span class="emphasis"><em>errno_on_error</em></span> but only
104 when the compiler has no exception handling support.
105 </li>
106</ul></div>
107<p>
108 Patches:
109 </p>
110<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
111<li class="listitem">
112 Fix behaviour of the non-central chi-squared distribution when the non-centrality
113 parameter is zero to match the chi-squared, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11557" target="_top">11557</a>.
114 </li>
115<li class="listitem">
116 Fix comments in code for the hypergeometric to match what it actually does,
117 also fixes the parameter access functions to return the correct values.
118 See <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11556" target="_top">11556</a>.
119 </li>
120<li class="listitem">
121 Stopped using hidden visiblity library build with the Oracle compiler as
122 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>.
123 </li>
124<li class="listitem">
125 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>.
126 </li>
127<li class="listitem">
128 Fix corner case bug in root bracketing code, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11532" target="_top">11532</a>.
129 </li>
130<li class="listitem">
131 Add some missing typecasts in arguments to std::max in Bernoulli code.
132 See <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11453" target="_top">11453</a>.
133 </li>
134<li class="listitem">
135 Fix mistaken assumptions about the possible values for FLT_EVAL_METHOD.
136 See <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11429" target="_top">11429</a>.
137 </li>
138<li class="listitem">
139 Completely revamped performance testing and error-rate measuring code so
140 we can more easily document how well (or not!) we're doing. This information
141 will hopefully get more frequently updated in future as it's more or less
142 automatically generated - see the <span class="emphasis"><em>reporting</em></span> sub-directory
143 for more information.
144 </li>
145<li class="listitem">
146 Fix some corner cases in the beta, incomplete beta, and incomplete beta
147 derivative. With thanks to Rocco Romeo.
148 </li>
149<li class="listitem">
150 Reorganized the Bessel functions internally to improve the performance
151 of Jn and Yn.
152 </li>
153<li class="listitem">
154 Fixed skewness formula for triangular distribution, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11768" target="_top">#11768</a>.
155 </li>
156<li class="listitem">
157 Fixed some examples so they compile on Unix platforms which have an ::exception
158 struct declared, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11827" target="_top">#11827</a>.
159 </li>
160<li class="listitem">
161 Correct mistake in triangular distribution skewness formula <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11768" target="_top">11768</a>,
162 reported by Juan Leni.
163 </li>
164</ul></div>
165<h5>
166<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h4"></a>
167 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.math_2_2_1"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.math_2_2_1">Math-2.2.1</a>
168 </h5>
169<p>
170 Patch release for Boost-1.58:
171 </p>
172<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
173<li class="listitem">
174 Minor <a href="https://github.com/boostorg/math/pull/13#issuecomment-98905579" target="_top">patch
175 for Haiku support.</a>
176 </li>
177<li class="listitem">
178 Fix the decimal digit count for 128-bit floating point types.
179 </li>
180<li class="listitem">
181 Fix a few documentation typos.
182 </li>
183</ul></div>
184<h5>
185<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h5"></a>
186 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.math_2_2_0_boost_1_58_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.math_2_2_0_boost_1_58_0">Math-2.2.0
187 (boost-1.58.0)</a>
188 </h5>
189<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
190<li class="listitem">
191 Added two new special functions - <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/trigamma.html" title="Trigamma">trigamma</a>
192 and <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/polygamma.html" title="Polygamma">polygamma</a>.
193 </li>
194<li class="listitem">
195 Fixed namespace scope constants so they are constexpr on conforming compilers,
196 see https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10901.
197 </li>
198<li class="listitem">
199 Fixed various cases of spurious under/overflow in the incomplete beta and
200 gamma functions, plus the elliptic integrals, with thanks to Rocco Romeo.
201 </li>
202<li class="listitem">
203 Fix 3-arg <a class="link" href="sf_poly/legendre.html" title="Legendre (and Associated) Polynomials">legendre_p</a>
204 and <a class="link" href="sf_poly/legendre.html" title="Legendre (and Associated) Polynomials">legendre_q</a> functions
205 to not call the policy based overload if the final argument is not actually
206 a policy.
207 </li>
208<li class="listitem">
209 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>.
210 </li>
211<li class="listitem">
212 Fixed extreme-value pdf for large valued inputs, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10938" target="_top">#10938</a>.
213 </li>
214<li class="listitem">
215 Large update to the Elliptic integral code to use Carlson's latest algorithms
216 - these should be more stable, more accurate and slightly faster than before.
217 Also added support for Carlson's RG integral.
218 </li>
219<li class="listitem">
220 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
221 integrals.
222 </li>
223<li class="listitem">
224 Switched documentation to use SVG rather than PNG graphs and equations
225 - browsers seem to have finally caught up!
226 </li>
227</ul></div>
228<h5>
229<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h6"></a>
230 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.math_2_1_0_boost_1_57_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.math_2_1_0_boost_1_57_0">Math-2.1.0
231 (boost-1.57.0)</a>
232 </h5>
233<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
234<li class="listitem">
235 Added <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/hyperexponential_dist.html" title="Hyperexponential Distribution">Hyperexponential
236 Distribution</a>.
237 </li>
238<li class="listitem">
239 Fix some spurious overflows in the incomplete gamma functions (with thanks
240 to Rocco Romeo).
241 </li>
242<li class="listitem">
243 Fix bug in derivative of incomplete beta when a = b = 0.5 - this also effects
244 several non-central distributions, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10480" target="_top">10480</a>.
245 </li>
246<li class="listitem">
247 Fixed some corner cases in <a class="link" href="rounding/round.html" title="Rounding Functions">round</a>.
248 </li>
249<li class="listitem">
250 Don't support 80-bit floats in cstdfloat.hpp if standard library support
251 is broken.
252 </li>
253</ul></div>
254<h5>
255<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h7"></a>
256 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.math_2_0_0_boost_1_56_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.math_2_0_0_boost_1_56_0">Math-2.0.0
257 (Boost-1.56.0)</a>
258 </h5>
259<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
260<li class="listitem">
261 <span class="bold"><strong>Breaking change</strong></span>: moved a number of non-core
262 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
263 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>,
264 <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>,
265 <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
266 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
267 path.
268 </li>
269<li class="listitem">
270 <span class="bold"><strong>Breaking change</strong></span>: A number of distributions
271 and special functions were returning the maximum finite value rather than
272 raising an <a class="link" href="error_handling.html#math_toolkit.error_handling.overflow_error">overflow_error</a>,
273 this has now been fixed, which means these functions now behave as documented.
274 However, since the default behavior on raising an <a class="link" href="error_handling.html#math_toolkit.error_handling.overflow_error">overflow_error</a>
275 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
276 which have come to reply rely on these functions not throwing may experience
277 exceptions where they did not before. The special functions involved are
278 <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/igamma_inv.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Function Inverses">gamma_p_inva</a>,
279 <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/igamma_inv.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Function Inverses">gamma_q_inva</a>,
280 <a class="link" href="sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibeta_inva</a>,
281 <a class="link" href="sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibetac_inva</a>,
282 <a class="link" href="sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibeta_invb</a>,
283 <a class="link" href="sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibetac_invb</a>,
284 <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
285 involved are <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/pareto.html" title="Pareto Distribution">Pareto
286 Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/beta_dist.html" title="Beta Distribution">Beta
287 Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/geometric_dist.html" title="Geometric Distribution">Geometric
288 Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/negative_binomial_dist.html" title="Negative Binomial Distribution">Negative
289 Binomial Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/binomial_dist.html" title="Binomial Distribution">Binomial
290 Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/chi_squared_dist.html" title="Chi Squared Distribution">Chi
291 Squared Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/gamma_dist.html" title="Gamma (and Erlang) Distribution">Gamma
292 Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/inverse_chi_squared_dist.html" title="Inverse Chi Squared Distribution">Inverse
293 chi squared Distribution</a>, <a class="link" href="dist_ref/dists/inverse_gamma_dist.html" title="Inverse Gamma Distribution">Inverse
294 Gamma Distribution</a>. See <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10111" target="_top">#10111</a>.
295 </li>
296<li class="listitem">
297 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
298 be used with integer arguments, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10066" target="_top">#10066</a>.
299 </li>
300<li class="listitem">
301 Fix Halley iteration to handle zero derivative (with non-zero second derivative),
302 see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10046" target="_top">#10046</a>.
303 </li>
304</ul></div>
305<h5>
306<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h8"></a>
307 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.math_1_9_1"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.math_1_9_1">Math-1.9.1</a>
308 </h5>
309<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
310<li class="listitem">
311 Fix Geometric distribution use of Policies, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9833" target="_top">#9833</a>.
312 </li>
313<li class="listitem">
314 Fix corner cases in the negative binomial distribution, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9834" target="_top">#9834</a>.
315 </li>
316<li class="listitem">
317 Fix compilation failures on Mac OS.
318 </li>
319</ul></div>
320<h5>
321<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h9"></a>
322 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.math_1_9_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.math_1_9_0">Math-1.9.0</a>
323 </h5>
324<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
325<li class="listitem">
326 Changed version number to new Boost.Math specific version now that we're
327 in the modular Boost world.
328 </li>
329<li class="listitem">
330 Added <a class="link" href="number_series/bernoulli_numbers.html" title="Bernoulli Numbers">Bernoulli
331 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
332 approximation (from Nikhar Agrawal).
333 </li>
334<li class="listitem">
335 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>,
336 <a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_derivatives.html" title="Derivatives of the Bessel Functions">cyl_neumann_prime</a>,
337 <a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_derivatives.html" title="Derivatives of the Bessel Functions">cyl_bessel_i_prime</a>,
338 <a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_derivatives.html" title="Derivatives of the Bessel Functions">cyl_bessel_k_prime</a>,
339 <a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_derivatives.html" title="Derivatives of the Bessel Functions">sph_bessel_prime</a>
340 and <a class="link" href="bessel/bessel_derivatives.html" title="Derivatives of the Bessel Functions">sph_neumann_prime</a>
341 (from Anton Bikineev).
342 </li>
343<li class="listitem">
344 Fixed buggy Student's t example code, along with docs for testing sample
345 means for equivalence.
346 </li>
347<li class="listitem">
348 Documented <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">max_iter</span></code> parameter
349 in root finding code better, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9225" target="_top">#9225</a>.
350 </li>
351<li class="listitem">
352 Add option to explicitly enable/disable use of __float128 in constants
353 code, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9240" target="_top">#9240</a>.
354 </li>
355<li class="listitem">
356 Cleaned up handling of negative values in Bessel I0 and I1 code (removed
357 dead code), see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9512" target="_top">#9512</a>.
358 </li>
359<li class="listitem">
360 Fixed handling of very small values passed to <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/tgamma.html" title="Gamma">tgamma</a>
361 and <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/lgamma.html" title="Log Gamma">lgamma</a> so they
362 don't generate spurious overflows (thanks to Rocco Romeo).
363 </li>
364<li class="listitem">
365 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9672" target="_top">#9672 PDF and
366 CDF of a Laplace distribution throwing domain_error</a> Random variate
367 can now be infinite.
368 </li>
369<li class="listitem">
370 Fixed several corner cases in <a class="link" href="factorials/sf_rising_factorial.html" title="Rising Factorial">rising_factorial</a>,
371 <a class="link" href="factorials/sf_falling_factorial.html" title="Falling Factorial">falling_factorial</a>
372 and <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/gamma_ratios.html" title="Ratios of Gamma Functions">tgamma_delta_ratio</a>
373 with thanks to Rocco Romeo.
374 </li>
375<li class="listitem">
376 Fixed several corner cases in <a class="link" href="factorials/sf_rising_factorial.html" title="Rising Factorial">rising_factorial</a>,
377 <a class="link" href="factorials/sf_falling_factorial.html" title="Falling Factorial">falling_factorial</a>
378 and <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/gamma_ratios.html" title="Ratios of Gamma Functions">tgamma_delta_ratio</a>
379 (thanks to Rocco Romeo).
380 </li>
381<li class="listitem">
382 Removed constant <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">pow23_four_minus_pi</span>
383 </code> whose value did not match the name (and was unused by Boost.Math),
384 see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9712" target="_top">#9712</a>.
385 </li>
386</ul></div>
387<h5>
388<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h10"></a>
389 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_55"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_55">Boost-1.55</a>
390 </h5>
391<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
392<li class="listitem">
393 Suppress numerous warnings (mostly from GCC-4.8 and MSVC) <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8384" target="_top">#8384</a>,
394 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8855" target="_top">#8855</a>,
395 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9107" target="_top">#9107</a>,
396 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9109" target="_top">#9109</a>..
397 </li>
398<li class="listitem">
399 Fixed PGI compilation issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8333" target="_top">#8333</a>.
400 </li>
401<li class="listitem">
402 Fixed PGI constant value initialization issue that caused erf to generate
403 incorrect results <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8621" target="_top">#8621</a>.
404 </li>
405<li class="listitem">
406 Prevent macro expansion of some C99 macros that are also C++ functions
407 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8732" target="_top">#8732</a>
408 and <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8733" target="_top">#8733</a>..
409 </li>
410<li class="listitem">
411 Fixed Student's T distribution to behave correctly with huge degrees of
412 freedom (larger than the largest representable integer) <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8837" target="_top">#8837</a>.
413 </li>
414<li class="listitem">
415 Make some core functions usable with <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">long</span>
416 <span class="keyword">double</span></code> even when the platform has
417 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>.
418 </li>
419<li class="listitem">
420 Fix error handling of distributions to catch invalid scale and location
421 parameters when the random variable is infinite <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9042" target="_top">#9042</a>
422 and <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9126" target="_top">#9126</a>.
423 </li>
424<li class="listitem">
425 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>.
426 </li>
427<li class="listitem">
428 Improve consistency of argument reduction in the elliptic integrals <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9104" target="_top">#9104</a>.
429 </li>
430<li class="listitem">
431 Fix bug in inverse incomplete beta that results in cancellation errors
432 when the beta function is really an arcsine or Student's T distribution.
433 </li>
434<li class="listitem">
435 Fix issue in Bessel I and K function continued fractions that causes spurious
436 over/underflow.
437 </li>
438<li class="listitem">
439<p class="simpara">
440 Add improvement to non-central chi squared distribution quantile due to
441 Thomas Luu, <a href="http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1482128/" target="_top">Fast and accurate
442 parallel computation of quantile functions for random number generation,
443 Doctorial Thesis 2016</a>. <a href="http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1463470/" target="_top">Efficient
444 and Accurate Parallel Inversion of the Gamma Distribution, Thomas Luu</a>
445 </p>
446<h5>
447<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h11"></a>
448 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_54"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_54">Boost-1.54</a>
449 </h5>
450</li>
451<li class="listitem">
452 Major reorganization to incorporate other Boost.Math like Integer Utilities
453 Integer Utilities (Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple),
454 quaternions and octonions. Making new chapter headings.
455 </li>
456<li class="listitem">
457 Added many references to Boost.Multiprecision and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">cpp_dec_float_50</span></code>
458 as an example of a User-defined Type (UDT).
459 </li>
460<li class="listitem">
461 Added Clang to list of supported compilers.
462 </li>
463<li class="listitem">
464 Fixed constants to use a thread-safe cache of computed values when used
465 at arbitrary precision.
466 </li>
467<li class="listitem">
468 Added finding zeros of Bessel functions <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">cyl_bessel_j_zero</span></code>,
469 <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
470 Christopher Kormanyos).
471 </li>
472<li class="listitem">
473 More accuracy improvements to the Bessel J and Y functions from Rocco Romeo.
474 </li>
475<li class="listitem">
476 Fixed nasty cyclic dependency bug that caused some headers to not compile
477 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7999" target="_top">#7999</a>.
478 </li>
479<li class="listitem">
480 Fixed bug in <a class="link" href="sf_gamma/tgamma.html" title="Gamma">tgamma</a>
481 that caused spurious overflow for arguments between 142.5 and 143.
482 </li>
483<li class="listitem">
484 Fixed bug in raise_rounding_error that caused it to return an incorrect
485 result when throwing an exception is turned off <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7905" target="_top">#7905</a>.
486 </li>
487<li class="listitem">
488 Added minimal __float128 support.
489 </li>
490<li class="listitem">
491 Fixed bug in edge-cases of poisson quantile <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8308" target="_top">#8308</a>.
492 </li>
493<li class="listitem">
494 Adjusted heuristics used in Halley iteration to cope with inverting the
495 incomplete beta in tricky regions where the derivative is flatlining. Example
496 is computing the quantile of the Fisher F distribution for probabilities
497 smaller than machine epsilon. See ticket <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8314" target="_top">#8314</a>.
498 </li>
499</ul></div>
500<h5>
501<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h12"></a>
502 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_53"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_53">Boost-1.53</a>
503 </h5>
504<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
505<li class="listitem">
506 Fixed issues <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7325" target="_top">#7325</a>,
507 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7415" target="_top">#7415</a>
508 and <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7416" target="_top">#7416</a>,
509 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7183" target="_top">#7183</a>,
510 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7649" target="_top">#7649</a>,
511 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7694" target="_top">#7694</a>,
512 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4445" target="_top">#4445</a>,
513 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7492" target="_top">#7492</a>,
514 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7891" target="_top">#7891</a>,
515 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7429" target="_top">#7429</a>.
516 </li>
517<li class="listitem">
518 Fixed mistake in calculating pooled standard deviation in two-sample students
519 t example <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7402" target="_top">#7402</a>.
520 </li>
521<li class="listitem">
522 Improve complex acos/asin/atan, see <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7290" target="_top">#7290</a>,
523 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7291" target="_top">#7291</a>.
524 </li>
525<li class="listitem">
526 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>
527 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>
528 thanks to suggestions from Rocco Romeo.
529 </li>
530<li class="listitem">
531 Improve accuracy of Bessel J and Y for integer orders thanks to suggestions
532 from Rocco Romeo.
533 </li>
534</ul></div>
535<h5>
536<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h13"></a>
537 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_52"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_52">Boost-1.52</a>
538 </h5>
539<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
540<li class="listitem">
541 Corrected moments for small degrees of freedom <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7177" target="_top">#7177</a>
542 (reported by Thomas Mang).
543 </li>
544<li class="listitem">
545 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>.
546 </li>
547<li class="listitem">
548 Corrected failure to detect bad parameters in many distributions <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6934" target="_top">#6934</a> (reported
549 by Florian Schoppmann) by adding a function check_out_of_range to test
550 many possible bad parameters. This test revealed several distributions
551 where the checks for bad parameters were ineffective, and these have been
552 rectified.
553 </li>
554<li class="listitem">
555 Fixed issue in Hankel functions that causes incorrect values to be returned
556 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>.
557 </li>
558<li class="listitem">
559 Fixed issues <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6517" target="_top">#6517</a>,
560 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6362" target="_top">#6362</a>,
561 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7053" target="_top">#7053</a>,
562 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2693" target="_top">#2693</a>,
563 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6937" target="_top">#6937</a>,
564 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7099" target="_top">#7099</a>.
565 </li>
566<li class="listitem">
567 Permitted infinite degrees of freedom <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7259" target="_top">#7259</a>
568 implemented using the normal distribution (requested by Thomas Mang).
569 </li>
570<li class="listitem">
571 Much enhanced accuracy for large degrees of freedom &#957; and/or large non-centrality
572 &#948;
573by switching to use the Students t distribution (or Normal distribution
574 for infinite degrees of freedom) centered at delta, when &#948; / (4 * &#957;) &lt;
575 epsilon for the floating-point type in use. <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7259" target="_top">#7259</a>.
576 It was found that the incomplete beta was suffering from serious cancellation
577 errors when degrees of freedom was very large. (That has now been fixed
578 in our code, but any code based on Didonato and Morris's original papers
579 (probably every implementation out there actually) will have the same issue).
580 </li>
581</ul></div>
582<h5>
583<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h14"></a>
584 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_51"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_51">Boost-1.51</a>
585 </h5>
586<p>
587 See Boost-1.52 - some items were added but not listed in time for the release.
588 </p>
589<h5>
590<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h15"></a>
591 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_50"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_50">Boost-1.50</a>
592 </h5>
593<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
594<li class="listitem">
595 Promoted math constants to be 1st class citizens, including convenient
596 access to the most widely used built-in float, double, long double via
597 three namespaces.
598 </li>
599<li class="listitem">
600 Added the Owen's T function and Skew Normal distribution written by Benjamin
601 Sobotta: see <a class="link" href="owens_t.html" title="Owen's T function">Owens T</a> and skew_normal_distrib.
602 </li>
603<li class="listitem">
604 Added Hankel functions <a class="link" href="hankel/cyl_hankel.html" title="Cyclic Hankel Functions">cyl_hankel_1</a>,
605 <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>.
606 </li>
607<li class="listitem">
608 Corrected issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6627" target="_top">#6627
609 nonfinite_num_put formatting of 0.0 is incorrect</a> based on a patch
610 submitted by K R Walker.
611 </li>
612<li class="listitem">
613 Changed constant initialization mechanism so that it is thread safe even
614 for user-defined types, also so that user defined types get the full precision
615 of the constant, even when <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">long</span>
616 <span class="keyword">double</span></code> does not. So for example
617 128-bit rational approximations will work with UDT's and do the right thing,
618 even though <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">long</span> <span class="keyword">double</span></code>
619 may be only 64 or 80 bits.
620 </li>
621<li class="listitem">
622 Fixed issue in <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">bessel_jy</span></code>
623 which causes Y<sub>8.5</sub>(4&#960;) to yield a NaN.
624 </li>
625</ul></div>
626<h5>
627<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h16"></a>
628 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_49"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_49">Boost-1.49</a>
629 </h5>
630<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
631<li class="listitem">
632 Deprecated wrongly named <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">twothirds</span></code>
633 math constant in favour of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">two_thirds</span></code>
634 (with underscore separator). (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6199" target="_top">#6199</a>).
635 </li>
636<li class="listitem">
637 Refactored test data and some special function code to improve support
638 for arbitary precision and/or expression-template-enabled types.
639 </li>
640<li class="listitem">
641 Added new faster zeta function evaluation method.
642 </li>
643</ul></div>
644<p>
645 Fixed issues:
646 </p>
647<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
648<li class="listitem">
649 Corrected CDF complement for Laplace distribution (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6151" target="_top">#6151</a>).
650 </li>
651<li class="listitem">
652 Corrected branch cuts on the complex inverse trig functions, to handle
653 signed zeros (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6171" target="_top">#6171</a>).
654 </li>
655<li class="listitem">
656 Fixed bug in <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">bessel_yn</span></code>
657 which caused incorrect overflow errors to be raised for negative <span class="emphasis"><em>n</em></span>
658 (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6367" target="_top">#6367</a>).
659 </li>
660<li class="listitem">
661 Also fixed minor/cosmetic/configuration issues <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6120" target="_top">#6120</a>,
662 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6191" target="_top">#6191</a>,
663 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5982" target="_top">#5982</a>,
664 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6130" target="_top">#6130</a>,
665 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6234" target="_top">#6234</a>,
666 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6307" target="_top">#6307</a>,
667 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6192" target="_top">#6192</a>.
668 </li>
669</ul></div>
670<h5>
671<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h17"></a>
672 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_48"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_48">Boost-1.48</a>
673 </h5>
674<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
675<li class="listitem">
676 Added new series evaluation methods to the cyclic Bessel I, J, K and Y
677 functions. Also taken great care to avoid spurious over and underflow of
678 these functions. Fixes issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5560" target="_top">#5560</a>
679 </li>
680<li class="listitem">
681 Added an example of using Inverse Chi-Squared distribution for Bayesian
682 statistics, provided by Thomas Mang.
683 </li>
684<li class="listitem">
685 Added tests to use improved version of lexical_cast which handles C99 nonfinites
686 without using globale facets.
687 </li>
688<li class="listitem">
689 Corrected wrong out-of-bound uniform distribution CDF complement values
690 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5733" target="_top">#5733</a>.
691 </li>
692<li class="listitem">
693 Enabled long double support on OpenBSD (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6014" target="_top">#6014</a>).
694 </li>
695<li class="listitem">
696 Changed nextafter and related functions to behave in the same way as other
697 implementations - so that nextafter(+INF, 0) is a finite value (issue
698 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5823" target="_top">#5832</a>).
699 </li>
700<li class="listitem">
701 Changed tuple include configuration to fix issue when using in conjunction
702 with Boost.Tr1 (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5934" target="_top">#5934</a>).
703 </li>
704<li class="listitem">
705 Changed class eps_tolerance to behave correctly when both ends of the range
706 are zero (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6001" target="_top">#6001</a>).
707 </li>
708<li class="listitem">
709 Fixed missing include guards on prime.hpp (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5927" target="_top">#5927</a>).
710 </li>
711<li class="listitem">
712 Removed unused/undocumented constants from constants.hpp (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5982" target="_top">#5982</a>).
713 </li>
714<li class="listitem">
715 Fixed missing std:: prefix in nonfinite_num_facets.hpp (issue <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5914" target="_top">#5914</a>).
716 </li>
717<li class="listitem">
718 Minor patches for Cray compiler compatibility.
719 </li>
720</ul></div>
721<h5>
722<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h18"></a>
723 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_47"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_47">Boost-1.47</a>
724 </h5>
725<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
726<li class="listitem">
727 Added changesign function to sign.hpp to facilitate addition of nonfinite
728 facets.
729 </li>
730<li class="listitem">
731 Addition of nonfinite facets from Johan Rade, with tests, examples of use
732 for C99 format infinity and NaN, and documentation.
733 </li>
734<li class="listitem">
735 Added tests and documentation of changesign from Johan Rade.
736 </li>
737</ul></div>
738<h5>
739<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h19"></a>
740 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_46_1"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_46_1">Boost-1.46.1</a>
741 </h5>
742<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
743 Fixed issues <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5095" target="_top">#5095</a>,
744 <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5095" target="_top">#5113</a>.
745 </li></ul></div>
746<h5>
747<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h20"></a>
748 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_46_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_46_0">Boost-1.46.0</a>
749 </h5>
750<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
751<li class="listitem">
752 Added Wald, Inverse Gaussian and geometric distributions.
753 </li>
754<li class="listitem">
755 Added information about configuration macros.
756 </li>
757<li class="listitem">
758 Added support for mpreal as a real-numbered type.
759 </li>
760</ul></div>
761<h5>
762<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h21"></a>
763 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_45_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_45_0">Boost-1.45.0</a>
764 </h5>
765<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
766<li class="listitem">
767 Added warnings about potential ambiguity with std random library in distribution
768 and function names.
769 </li>
770<li class="listitem">
771 Added inverse gamma distribution and inverse chi_square and scaled inverse
772 chi_square.
773 </li>
774<li class="listitem">
775 Editorial revision of documentation, and added FAQ.
776 </li>
777</ul></div>
778<h5>
779<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h22"></a>
780 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_44_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_44_0">Boost-1.44.0</a>
781 </h5>
782<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
783<li class="listitem">
784 Fixed incorrect range and support for Rayleigh distribution.
785 </li>
786<li class="listitem">
787 Fixed numerical error in the quantile of the Student's T distribution:
788 the function was returning garbage values for non-integer degrees of freedom
789 between 2 and 3.
790 </li>
791</ul></div>
792<h5>
793<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h23"></a>
794 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_41_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_41_0">Boost-1.41.0</a>
795 </h5>
796<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
797 Significantly improved performance for the incomplete gamma function and
798 its inverse.
799 </li></ul></div>
800<h5>
801<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h24"></a>
802 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_40_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_40_0">Boost-1.40.0</a>
803 </h5>
804<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
805<li class="listitem">
806 Added support for MPFR as a bignum type.
807 </li>
808<li class="listitem">
809 Added some full specializations of the policy classes to reduce compile
810 times.
811 </li>
812<li class="listitem">
813 Added logistic and hypergeometric distributions, from Gautam Sewani's Google
814 Summer of Code project.
815 </li>
816<li class="listitem">
817 Added Laplace distribution submitted by Thijs van den Berg.
818 </li>
819<li class="listitem">
820 Updated performance test code to include new distributions, and improved
821 the performance of the non-central distributions.
822 </li>
823<li class="listitem">
824 Added SSE2 optimised <a class="link" href="lanczos.html" title="The Lanczos Approximation">Lanczos approximation</a>
825 code, from Gautam Sewani's Google Summer of Code project.
826 </li>
827<li class="listitem">
828 Fixed bug in cyl_bessel_i that used an incorrect approximation for &#957; = 0.5,
829 also effects the non-central Chi Square Distribution when &#957; = 3, see bug
830 report <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2877" target="_top">#2877</a>.
831 </li>
832<li class="listitem">
833 Fixed minor bugs <a href="https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2873" target="_top">#2873</a>.
834 </li>
835</ul></div>
836<h5>
837<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h25"></a>
838 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_38_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_38_0">Boost-1.38.0</a>
839 </h5>
840<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
841<li class="listitem">
842 Added Johan R&#229;de's optimised floating point classification routines.
843 </li>
844<li class="listitem">
845 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>).
846 </li>
847</ul></div>
848<h5>
849<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h26"></a>
850 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_37_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_37_0">Boost-1.37.0</a>
851 </h5>
852<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
853 Improved accuracy and testing of the inverse hypergeometric functions.
854 </li></ul></div>
855<h5>
856<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h27"></a>
857 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_36_0"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_36_0">Boost-1.36.0</a>
858 </h5>
859<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
860<li class="listitem">
861 Added Noncentral Chi Squared Distribution.
862 </li>
863<li class="listitem">
864 Added Noncentral Beta Distribution.
865 </li>
866<li class="listitem">
867 Added Noncentral F Distribution.
868 </li>
869<li class="listitem">
870 Added Noncentral T Distribution.
871 </li>
872<li class="listitem">
873 Added Exponential Integral Functions.
874 </li>
875<li class="listitem">
876 Added Zeta Function.
877 </li>
878<li class="listitem">
879 Added Rounding and Truncation functions.
880 </li>
881<li class="listitem">
882 Added Compile time powers of runtime bases.
883 </li>
884<li class="listitem">
885 Added SSE2 optimizations for Lanczos evaluation.
886 </li>
887</ul></div>
888<h5>
889<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h28"></a>
890 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_35_0_post_review_first_o"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.boost_1_35_0_post_review_first_o">Boost-1.35.0:
891 Post Review First Official Release</a>
892 </h5>
893<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
894<li class="listitem">
895 Added Policy based framework that allows fine grained control over function
896 behaviour.
897 </li>
898<li class="listitem">
899 <span class="bold"><strong>Breaking change:</strong></span> Changed default behaviour
900 for domain, pole and overflow errors to throw an exception (based on review
901 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.
902 </li>
903<li class="listitem">
904 <span class="bold"><strong>Breaking change:</strong></span> Changed exception thrown
905 when an internal evaluation error occurs to boost::math::evaluation_error.
906 </li>
907<li class="listitem">
908 <span class="bold"><strong>Breaking change:</strong></span> Changed discrete quantiles
909 to return an integer result: this is anything up to 20 times faster than
910 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.
911 </li>
912<li class="listitem">
913 Polynomial/rational function evaluation is now customisable and hopefully
914 faster than before.
915 </li>
916<li class="listitem">
917 Added performance test program.
918 </li>
919</ul></div>
920<h5>
921<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h29"></a>
922 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.milestone_4_second_review_candid"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.milestone_4_second_review_candid">Milestone
923 4: Second Review Candidate (1st March 2007)</a>
924 </h5>
925<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
926<li class="listitem">
927 Moved Xiaogang Zhang's Bessel Functions code into the library, and brought
928 them into line with the rest of the code.
929 </li>
930<li class="listitem">
931 Added C# "Distribution Explorer" demo application.
932 </li>
933</ul></div>
934<h5>
935<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h30"></a>
936 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.milestone_3_first_review_candida"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.milestone_3_first_review_candida">Milestone
937 3: First Review Candidate (31st Dec 2006)</a>
938 </h5>
939<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
940<li class="listitem">
941 Implemented the main probability distribution and density functions.
942 </li>
943<li class="listitem">
944 Implemented digamma.
945 </li>
946<li class="listitem">
947 Added more factorial functions.
948 </li>
949<li class="listitem">
950 Implemented the Hermite, Legendre and Laguerre polynomials plus the spherical
951 harmonic functions from TR1.
952 </li>
953<li class="listitem">
954 Moved Xiaogang Zhang's elliptic integral code into the library, and brought
955 them into line with the rest of the code.
956 </li>
957<li class="listitem">
958 Moved Hubert Holin's existing Boost.Math special functions into this library
959 and brought them into line with the rest of the code.
960 </li>
961</ul></div>
962<h5>
963<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h31"></a>
964 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.milestone_2_released_september_1"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.milestone_2_released_september_1">Milestone
965 2: Released September 10th 2006</a>
966 </h5>
967<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
968<li class="listitem">
969 Implement preview release of the statistical distributions.
970 </li>
971<li class="listitem">
972 Added statistical distributions tutorial.
973 </li>
974<li class="listitem">
975 Implemented root finding algorithms.
976 </li>
977<li class="listitem">
978 Implemented the inverses of the incomplete gamma and beta functions.
979 </li>
980<li class="listitem">
981 Rewrite erf/erfc as rational approximations (valid to 128-bit precision).
982 </li>
983<li class="listitem">
984 Integrated the statistical results generated from the test data with Boost.Test:
985 uses a database of expected results, indexed by test, floating point type,
986 platform, and compiler.
987 </li>
988<li class="listitem">
989 Improved lgamma near 1 and 2 (rational approximations).
990 </li>
991<li class="listitem">
992 Improved erf/erfc inverses (rational approximations).
993 </li>
994<li class="listitem">
995 Implemented Rational function generation (the Remez method).
996 </li>
997</ul></div>
998<h5>
999<a name="math_toolkit.history1.h32"></a>
1000 <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.history1.milestone_1_released_march_31st_"></a></span><a class="link" href="history1.html#math_toolkit.history1.milestone_1_released_march_31st_">Milestone
1001 1: Released March 31st 2006</a>
1002 </h5>
1003<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
1004<li class="listitem">
1005 Implement gamma/beta/erf functions along with their incomplete counterparts.
1006 </li>
1007<li class="listitem">
1008 Generate high quality test data, against which future improvements can
1009 be judged.
1010 </li>
1011<li class="listitem">
1012 Provide tools for the evaluation of infinite series, continued fractions,
1013 and rational functions.
1014 </li>
1015<li class="listitem">
1016 Provide tools for testing against tabulated test data, and collecting statistics
1017 on error rates.
1018 </li>
1019<li class="listitem">
1020 Provide sufficient docs for people to be able to find their way around
1021 the library.
1022 </li>
1023</ul></div>
1024<p>
1025 SVN Revisions:
1026 </p>
1027<p>
1028 Sandbox and trunk last synchonised at revision: .
1029 </p>
1030</div>
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1033<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright &#169; 2006-2010, 2012-2014 Nikhar Agrawal,
1034 Anton Bikineev, Paul A. Bristow, Marco Guazzone, Christopher Kormanyos, Hubert
1035 Holin, Bruno Lalande, John Maddock, Jeremy Murphy, Johan R&#229;de, Gautam Sewani,
1036 Benjamin Sobotta, Thijs van den Berg, Daryle Walker and Xiaogang Zhang<p>
1037 Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
1038 file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
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