code review 874041: cmath pkg

src/pkg/cmath/exp.go

+// Copyright 2010 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package cmath
+
+import "math"
+
+// The original C code, the long comment, and the constants
+// below are from http://netlib.sandia.gov/cephes/c9x-complex/clog.c.
+// The go code is a simplified version of the original C.
+//
+// Cephes Math Library Release 2.8:  June, 2000
+// Copyright 1984, 1987, 1989, 1992, 2000 by Stephen L. Moshier
+//
+// The readme file at http://netlib.sandia.gov/cephes/ says:
+//    Some software in this archive may be from the book _Methods and
+// Programs for Mathematical Functions_ (Prentice-Hall or Simon & Schuster
+// International, 1989) or from the Cephes Mathematical Library, a
+// commercial product. In either event, it is copyrighted by the author.
+// What you see here may be used freely but it comes with no support or
+// guarantee.
+//
+//   The two known misprints in the book are repaired here in the
+// source listings for the gamma function and the incomplete beta
+// integral.
+//
+//   Stephen L. Moshier
+//   moshier@na-net.ornl.gov
+
+// Complex exponential function
+//
+// DESCRIPTION:
+//
+// Returns the complex exponential of the complex argument z.
+//
+// If
+//     z = x + iy,
+//     r = exp(x),
+// then
+//     w = r cos y + i r sin y.
+//
+// ACCURACY:
+//
+//                      Relative error:
+// arithmetic   domain     # trials      peak         rms
+//    DEC       -10,+10      8700       3.7e-17     1.1e-17
+//    IEEE      -10,+10     30000       3.0e-16     8.7e-17
+
+// Exp returns e^x, the base-e exponential of x.
+func Exp(x complex128) complex128 {
+        r := math.Exp(real(x))
+        s, c := math.Sincos(imag(x))
+        return cmplx(r*c, r*s)
+}