Someone asked about the paper book. Simon Plouffe has put up a photocopy at http://www.lacim.uqam.ca/~plouffe/articles/Abramowitz&Stegun.pdf It's about 70M, and takes a few minutes to download. I've seen web versions, with each page a separate click, but I stopped using the remote ones after I had SP's version on my local disk. I tried the experiment of moving a screen grab from the PDF into Emacs, to get actual numerical table values. This seemeed to work OK, but it looked like some OCR intervened. I'd want to hand check anything that mattered. Rich ----------------- Quoting Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net>:

Rich wrote:

<< ... I was looking it over, and came away strangely dissatisfied. I was trying to put my finger on why, but I can't really explain it. The website doesn't have the same thrill as flipping through the book. ...

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This has occurred to me with other sites, too -- that it's almost always clunky to try to get the same feel for a website (such as today's NY Times at < nytimes.com >) as one would get by browsing a book or newspaper.

I hope this drawback is overcome soon -- a fix seems well within the scope of today's technology.

--Dan

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