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Decide on fate of missing C23 math.h functions #150646

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@skirpichev

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Proposal:

With #150534 it seems that sinpi et all will be landed in the math module. Lets discuss here remaining functions, coming with C23:

  • exp10 - The exp10 functions compute the base-10 exponential of x.
  • exp2m1 - The exp2m1 functions compute the base-2 exponential of the argument, minus 1.
  • exp10m1 - The exp10m1 functions compute the base-10 exponential of the argument, minus 1.
  • log2p1 - The log2p1 functions compute the base-2 logarithm of 1 plus the argument.
  • log10p1 - The log10p1 functions compute the base-10 logarithm of 1 plus the argument.
  • logp1 - alias of log1p, should we consider renaming?
  • rootn - The rootn functions compute the principal nth root of x.
  • rsqrt - The rsqrt functions compute the reciprocal of the nonnegative square root of the argument.

For completeness, cases that can change semantics of pow():

  • pown - The pown functions compute x raised to the nth power.
  • powr - The powr functions compute x raised to the power y as e**(y*log(x)).

References:

CC @picnixz, @rhettinger, @tim-one

I think that missing exp/log functions are good addition on same ground, as existing functions. log1p can be soft-deprecated (I don't think it worth considering deviations in naming like log1p2 and log1p10). I'm less certain about rootn (seems useful, but I would prefer rather some cmath function, that can return any k-th from n roots) and rsqrt.

Consider this as a continuation of #135853.

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