From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6d7a86bff9319841 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!193.201.147.88.MISMATCH!feeder8.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.wiretrip.org!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Where I find Bessel function for Ada ? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <2008120222180516807-rblove@airmailnet> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:54:19 +0100 Message-ID: <1oyzw9zkwowhq.1qcgag833mhmu$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 Dec 2008 15:54:19 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 40ca8daa.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=HK_0KDRgZ9iIkjb;<8iR=aic==]BZ:afn4Fo<]lROoRa^YC2XCjHcbiG^P39oGY4InDNcfSJ;bb[eFCTGGVUmh?dLK[5LiR>kgbDjj:HS>OM\a X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2861 Date: 2008-12-03T15:54:19+01:00 List-Id: On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:24:42 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote: > Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:18:05 -0600, R. B. Love wrote: >>> Do you work on comission? That's a $700 book. >> Wow, and these are used books! No, I bought it long time ago in 80's, my >> student times. Is it out of print? I cannot imagine that, the book a must >> like Janke-Emde-Loesch and Abramowitz-Stegun. > > It's publication date is 1976, and it's out of print. > > As to the price, read this article in the NY Times: > Interesting. IMO such important fundamental books should be made public. > Online book dealers use pricing algorithms and software to > track prices and sell lots of "rare but not collectible" > books (in the words of the article) at extraordinarily high > prices. The cover price for this book was $44. A did a quick search, a used German edition is about 100 EUR http://www.amazon.de/Mathematical-Functions-and-Their-Approximations/dp/0124599508 a used Russian one is just $12 http://www.alib.ru/bs.php4?uid=10010dbf3635e2cc97c468bcaf2a5f0c6d38 -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de