Adding a generic mathematical library

[Christopher Dimech]

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> Subject: Re: Adding a generic mathematical library
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>   > Have we considered to write a bit of glue code that would make it easier
>   > and more convenient to use the things defined in Calc?  Why invest all of
>   > the time again?
>
> If a calc function includes a substanial amount of code
> to do a specific kind of calculation, we could extract that part
> as a separate function and put it in a suitable place.

That would be a good starting point.  At least we would know that the functions
are indeed currently useful and being used.  We can find any mathematical
implementations in the emacs code, and extract some good ones to an initial
emacs mathematical library emacs can start to access.