more functions

[jtravs]

Is it possible to add more special functions here, for eventual use in Julia. (I'm willing to do the work). In particular I am currently interested in zeros of the bessel functions, and the hypergeometric functions. There are implementations on netlib (i.e. in cephes or specfun.f) which should have a compatible license as they are used in scipy. If this is OK, I will start to work on a trial pull request.

[jtravs]

more specifically, some of the functions from:
http://jin.ece.illinois.edu/routines/routines.html
i'll contact the authors, but they are distributed by the BSD like scipy, so the license should be fine.

[jiahao]

That would be fantastic. It would be nice to cross-check the implementation with others like the GSL.

[jiahao]

There are also the implementations of special functions in the NSWC Library of Mathematics Subroutines, as discussed in JuliaMath/openlibm#20

[jtravs]

Actually the GSL functions cover what I need and are probably better maintained than the abandoned fortran versions. I'll compare them at some point. It is a big shame we can't use GSL in base julia, as some of this functionality really ought to be there.

[ivarne]

I know nothing about it, but there exists something that looks like a wrapper for gsl for julia.

https://github.com/jiahao/GSL.jl

[jiahao]

With something like 3000 functions to export, I have yet to work through more than a small handful of the GSL provided functions. I could use someone else trying out the package and finding bugs.

[ViralBShah]

We now have a much better binary building infrastructure, and thus should not need to add more stuff in here.