Scientific Computing in Rust Monthly #15
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Crate of the month: approx
approx is a really useful crate for whenever you're writing unit tests for scientific code, as it contains helpful macros like
assert_relative_eq that check if two items are equal within a given tolerance. If you like the approx crate, keep reading, as there's
an opportunity to help with its maintenance in the "help wanted" section below.
New releases
Polyfit 0.10.1
Polyfit is a high-performance, easy-to-use polynomial fitting library for Rust, designed to make curve fitting accessible to software engineers without a background in statistics. It is generic over data type, as well as 11 choices of basis. It supports symbolic calculus, root-finding, and a spectral energy filter for orthogonal bases. It is high-performance, able to perform a 100-million-row 3rd-degree Chebyshev fit in ~1s on moderate consumer hardware.
Help wanted
approx 0.6.0
The approx crate is planning a new release 0.6.0 with a large set of new features.
This update contains many improvements such as derive macros and additional implementations for core and external types (i.e. Option<T>, OrderedFloat<F> etc.).
Due to the amount of additions, we are hoping for testers of the release candidates 0.6.0-rc2 and following before releasing 0.6.0 into the wild.
