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Bug ID: 4633024 Augment Java math libraries with methods from C libm and IEEE 754
4633024 : Augment Java math libraries with methods from C libm and IEEE 754

Details
Type:
Enhancement
Submit Date:
2002-02-05
Status:
Closed
Updated Date:
2003-09-09
Project Name:
JDK
Resolved Date:
2003-09-09
Component:
core-libs
OS:
generic
Sub-Component:
java.lang
CPU:
generic
Priority:
P4
Resolution:
Duplicate
Affected Versions:
5.0
Fixed Versions:

Related Reports
Duplicate:
JDK-4851625 - Add hyperbolic transcendental functions (sinh, cosh, tanh) to Java math library
Relates:
JDK-4919337 - Augment Java math libraries with more methods from C libm and IEEE 754
Relates:
JDK-4347132 - Want Math.cbrt() function for cube root
Relates:
JDK-4851638 - Add hypot, expm1, log1p, to Java math library
Relates:
JDK-4406429 - RFE: Add IEEE 754 Recommended Functions to Math, StrictMath
Relates:
JDK-4499431 - Request the method kthRoot(double a, long k) for kth root of a.
Relates:
JDK-4851642 - Add fma to Java math library
Relates:
JDK-4780454 - No SIGN function in class Math
Relates:
JDK-4074599 - Math package: implement log10 (base 10 logarithm)
Relates:
JDK-4358794 - Math package: implement pow10 (power of 10) with optimization for integer powers
Relates:
JDK-4851627 - Add exp2 and log2 functions to Java math library
Relates:
JDK-4210457 - Package literals? EG: Integer.NUMBEROFBITS

Sub Tasks

Description
The current Java math libraries (java.lang.Math and java.lang.StrictMath) lack
many methods found in the C math librariy (e.g. hyperbolic transcendental
functions) as well as functions recommended by the IEEE 754/854 floating-point
standards.  Java's math library should be augmented to include these methods.

The list of major math library methods added are

log10
cbrt
hypot
sinh, cosh, tanh
log1p
expm1

Additionally, ulp and signum were added.

Comments
WORK AROUND

Use native code to call functions in C's libm; write your own math functions.
2004-06-11 
PUBLIC COMMENTS

Request to add to the Java math libraries functions in C's libm and IEEE 754 that aren't already included in Java.
2004-06-10 
EVALUATION

Bug to track future JSR submission.

###@###.### 2002-02-04

Name: jd38982			Date: 02/04/2002


This feature has been added for Tiger release

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The preliminary list of methods being considering includes

cbrt
exp2
expm1
log10
log2
hypot
fma
erf, erfc
gamma, lgamma
sinh, cosh, tanh,...

Investigation of adding such methods probably doesn't warrant a full jsr.

###@###.### 2002-05-31

Update list of target methods to add is

sinh, cosh, tanh,
hypot, log1p, expm1,
exp2, log2,
fma

###@###.### 2003-06-04

The final list of major math library methods added in Tiger is:

log10
cbrt
hypot
sinh, cosh, tanh
log1p
expm1

Additionally, ulp and signum were added.

This bug is being closed as a dup of a bug covering a subset of the methods above.

To express interest in more additions to Java's math library, please transfer JDC votes to bug 4919337 "Augment Java math libraries with more methods from C libm and IEEE 754" which will track addition of methods like

asinh, acosh, atanh
fused mac
log2, exp2

###@###.### 2003-09-08
2003-09-08


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