The following ITP went
to <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> a few days ago.
However, there is so much noise over there that, of
courtesy, I ought to have posted it here too. The ITP
follows below. The BTS number is 413128.
Florian Weimer believes that the package might
experience license problems. I do not think that it
will, but on the other hand upstream has not actually
released the work yet; so, Florian might be right. For
the time being, the assumption is that the license will
resemble that of Abramowitz & Stegun's Handbook of
Mathematical Functions or of NIST's libtnt/libjama.
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* Package name : nist-dlmf
Version : 1.0.0
Upstream Author : U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology <DLMF-feedback@nist.gov>
* URL : http://dlmf.nist.gov/
* License : U.S. government issue, uncopyrighted (refer to Abramowitz & Stegun, page II)
Description : NIST's Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
>From the upstream web site:
Abramowitz and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions with
Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables is being completely
rewritten with regard to the needs of today. The new DLMF
(Digital Library of Mathematical Functions) will appear in a
hardcover edition and as a free electronic publication on the
World Wide Web. The authors will review the relevant published
literature and produce approximately twice the number of
formulas that were contained in the original Handboook. The
DLMF will make full use of advanced communications and
computational resources to present downloadable math data,
manipulable graphs, tables of numerical values, and math-aware
search. The authoritative status of the existing Handbook, and
its orientation toward applications in science, statistics,
engineering and computation, will be preserved.
Thus the utilitarian value of the Handbook will be extended far
beyond its original scope and the traditional limitations of
printed media. The term digital library has gained acceptance
for this kind of information resource, and our choice of project
title reflects our hope that the NIST DLMF will be a vehicle for
revolutionizing the way applicable mathematics in general is
practiced and delivered.
NIST plans to release the DLMF during 2007.
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