acos

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The usual trigonometric function.
Works inplace.

acos processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

asin

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The usual trigonometric function.
Works inplace.

asin processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

atan

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The usual trigonometric function.
Works inplace.

atan processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

cosh

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The standard hyperbolic function.
Works inplace.

cosh processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

sinh

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The standard hyperbolic function.
Works inplace.

sinh processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

tan

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The usual trigonometric function.
Works inplace.

tan processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

tanh

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The standard hyperbolic function.
Works inplace.

tanh processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

ceil

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

Round to integer values in floating-point format. Works inplace.

ceil processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

floor

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

Round to integer values in floating-point format. Works inplace.

floor processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

rint

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

Round to integer values in floating-point format.

rint uses the 'round half to even' rounding method (also known as banker's rounding). Half-integers are rounded to the nearest even number. This avoids a slight statistical bias inherent in always rounding half-integers up or away from zero.

If you are looking to round half-integers up (regardless of sign), try "floor($x+0.5)". If you want to round half-integers away from zero, try "ceil(abs($x)+0.5)*($x<=>0)". Works inplace.

rint processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

pow

  Signature: (a(); b(); [o]c())

Synonym for `**'. Works inplace.

pow processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

acosh

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The standard hyperbolic function.
Works inplace.

acosh processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

asinh

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The standard hyperbolic function.
Works inplace.

asinh processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

atanh

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The standard hyperbolic function.
Works inplace.

atanh processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

erf

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The error function. Works inplace.

erf processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

erfc

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The complement of the error function. Works inplace.

erfc processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

bessj0

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The regular Bessel function of the first kind, J_n Works inplace.

bessj0 processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

bessj1

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The regular Bessel function of the first kind, J_n Works inplace.

bessj1 processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

bessy0

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The regular Bessel function of the second kind, Y_n. Works inplace.

bessy0 processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

bessy1

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The regular Bessel function of the second kind, Y_n. Works inplace.

bessy1 processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

bessjn

  Signature: (a(); int n(); [o]b())

The regular Bessel function of the first kind, J_n . This takes a second int argument which gives the order of the function required.
Works inplace.

bessjn processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

bessyn

  Signature: (a(); int n(); [o]b())

The regular Bessel function of the first kind, Y_n . This takes a second int argument which gives the order of the function required.
Works inplace.

bessyn processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

lgamma

  Signature: (a(); [o]b(); int[o]s())

log gamma function

This returns 2 ndarrays -- the first set gives the log(gamma) values, while the second set, of integer values, gives the sign of the gamma function. This is useful for determining factorials, amongst other things.

lgamma processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

isfinite

  Signature: (a(); int [o]mask())

Sets $mask true if $a is not a "NaN" or "inf" (either positive or negative). Works inplace.

Bad values are treated as "NaN" or "inf".

erfi

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The inverse of the error function. Works inplace.

erfi processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

ndtri

  Signature: (a(); [o]b())

The value for which the area under the Gaussian probability density function (integrated from minus infinity) is equal to the argument (cf "erfi"). Works inplace.

ndtri processes bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.

polyroots

  Signature: (cr(n); ci(n); [o]rr(m); [o]ri(m))

Complex roots of a complex polynomial, given coefficients in order of decreasing powers.

 ($rr, $ri) = polyroots($cr, $ci);

polyroots does not process bad values. It will set the bad-value flag of all output ndarrays if the flag is set for any of the input ndarrays.