Thank you, Robin (and Kjetil),
for spotting and reporting this so precisely.
This is a (somewhat rare) example of a bug that is trivial
enough to fix so the fix even made it into the "deep frozen"
release candidate (R 2.4.0, to be released tomorrow).
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>>>>> "Robin" == r hankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:51:39 +0200 (CEST) writes:
Robin> Full_Name: Robin Hankin Version: 2.4.0 RC OS: MacOSX
Robin> 10.4.7 Submission from: (NULL) (139.166.242.29)
Robin> The first cut line described in Trig.Rd for asin() is
Robin> incorrect in the ascii version of the manpage.
Robin> The Rd file reads:
Robin> For \code{asin()} and \code{acos()}, there are two
Robin> cuts, both along the real axis: \eqn{\left(-\infty,
Robin> -1\right]}{\(-Inf, 1\]} and
Robin> Note the inconsistency between the ascii and latex
Robin> equations. It should read:
Robin> For \code{asin()} and \code{acos()}, there are two
Robin> cuts, both along the real axis: \eqn{\left(-\infty,
Robin> -1\right]}{\(-Inf, -1\]} and
Robin> where the final "1" has been changed to a "-1". Ref:
Robin> AMS-55, page 79, figure 4.4.
Robin> It's very difficult to catch this kind of error:
Robin> thanks to Kjetil Halvorson for his sharp-eyed
Robin> comment.
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