From a43e8c4e63755c10bb2bfcfb949dded39e56a0ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jzmaddock Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 12:55:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Release notes for Math lib. --- feed/history/boost_1_56_0.qbk | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/feed/history/boost_1_56_0.qbk b/feed/history/boost_1_56_0.qbk index b462f424..d82877c6 100644 --- a/feed/history/boost_1_56_0.qbk +++ b/feed/history/boost_1_56_0.qbk @@ -81,6 +81,21 @@ * `flyweight` now replicates the initializer-list constructors and assignment operators of its underlying type. * Fixed intermodule static initialization problem (ticket [ticket 9553]). * Maintenance fixes. + +* [phrase library..[@/libs/math/index.html Math]:] + * Fix Geometric distribution use of Policies, see [@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9833 #9833]. + * Fix corner cases in the negative binomial distribution, see [@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9834 #9834]. + * Fix compilation failures on Mac OS. + * Added bernoulli_numbers, changed arbitrary precision tgamma/lgamma to use Sterling's approximation (from Nikhar Agrawal). + * Added first derivatives of the Bessel functions: cyl_bessel_j_prime, cyl_neumann_prime, cyl_bessel_i_prime, cyl_bessel_k_prime, sph_bessel_prime and sph_neumann_prime (from Anton Bikineev). + * Fixed buggy Student's t example code, along with docs for testing sample means for equivalence. + * Documented `max_iter` parameter in root finding code better, see [@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9225 #9225]. + * Add option to explicitly enable/disable use of __float128 in constants code, see [@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9240 #9240]. + * Cleaned up handling of negative values in Bessel I0 and I1 code (removed dead code), see [@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9512 #9512]. + * Fixed handling of very small values passed to tgamma and lgamma so they don't generate spurious overflows (thanks to Rocco Romeo). + * [@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9672 #9672 PDF and CDF of a Laplace distribution throwing domain_error] Random variate can now be infinite. + * Fixed several corner cases in rising_factorial, falling_factorial and tgamma_delta_ratio with thanks to Rocco Romeo. + * Removed constant `pow23_four_minus_pi ` whose value did not match the name (and was unused by Boost.Math), see [@https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9712 #9712]. * [phrase library..[@/libs/multi_index/index.html Multi-index Containers]:] * The `erase(iterator)` member function of hashed indices used to have poor performance under low load