Re: [Help-gsl] definition of dilogarithm in GSL

[Paul Zimmermann]

       Dear Brian,

> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:04:00 +0100
> From: Brian Gough <address@hidden>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for your email.  If you want an unambiguous name then using
> mpfr_li2 would probably be the best choice.

this seems indeed the right thing to do.

> I believe the reason that GSL uses the name gsl_sf_dilog is that the
> dilogarithm is most commonly (correctly?) defined as Li2, and A&S is
> in the minority calling the Spence integral a dilogarithm.
> 
> I've cc'ed this email to Gerard Jungman the original author of the GSL
> dilogarithm function for any further comments.
> 
> -- 
> Brian Gough
> 
> GNU Scientific Library -
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

Thank you for your feedback.

Best regards,
Paul Zimmermann