[manual] bincoeff.m: make reference to nchoosek
Francesco Potortì
Potorti at isti.cnr.it
Fri Dec 26 16:02:14 CST 2008
This is the last changeset of the batch.
# HG changeset patch
# User Francesco Potortì <pot at gnu.org>
# Date 1230328853 -3600
# Node ID eb9e03be880dd2910c89ad441351179b13e3635f
# Parent 6f793967b58b8e10412815d31902a39ca399187c
bincoeff.m: make reference to nchoosek
diff -r 6f793967b58b -r eb9e03be880d scripts/ChangeLog
--- a/scripts/ChangeLog Fri Dec 26 22:56:19 2008 +0100
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog Fri Dec 26 23:00:53 2008 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ 2008-12-26 Francesco Potortì <pot at gnu.
2008-12-26 Francesco Potortì <pot at gnu.org>
+
+ * miscellaneous/bincoeff.m: Make reference to nchoosek.
* general/prepad.m: Add reference to postpad.
diff -r 6f793967b58b -r eb9e03be880d scripts/miscellaneous/bincoeff.m
--- a/scripts/miscellaneous/bincoeff.m Fri Dec 26 22:56:19 2008 +0100
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/bincoeff.m Fri Dec 26 23:00:53 2008 +0100
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@
## @result{} 10
## @end group
## @end example
+##
+## In most cases, the @code{nchoosek} function is faster for small
+## scalar integer arguments. It also warns about loss of precision for
+## big arguments.
+##
+## @seealso{nchoosek}
## @end deftypefn
## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik at wu-wien.ac.at>
@@ -108,4 +114,3 @@ endfunction
%!error bincoeff ();
%!error bincoeff (1, 2, 3);
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