# HG changeset patch
# User Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
# Date 1186118503 0
# Node ID 5dbe5cf5ad967b258e40c696fb65e3fd8a07d453
# Parent  36893fdf92ab8432a0f038711f352a46615c6dda
(math-get-value,math-get-sdev,math-contains-sdev): New functions.

diff -r 36893fdf92ab -r 5dbe5cf5ad96 lisp/calc/calc-ext.el
--- a/lisp/calc/calc-ext.el	Fri Aug 03 04:57:05 2007 +0000
+++ b/lisp/calc/calc-ext.el	Fri Aug 03 05:21:43 2007 +0000
@@ -2213,6 +2213,25 @@
       a
     (math-reject-arg a 'constp)))
 
+;;; Some functions for working with error forms.
+(defun math-get-value (x)
+  "Get the mean value of the error form X.
+If X is not an error form, return X."
+  (if (eq (car-safe x) 'sdev)
+      (nth 1 x)
+    x))
+       
+(defun math-get-sdev (x &optional one)
+  "Get the standard deviation of the error form X.
+If X is not an error form, return 1."
+  (if (eq (car-safe x) 'sdev)
+      (nth 2 x)
+    (if one 1 0)))
+
+(defun math-contains-sdev-p (ls)
+  "Non-nil if the list LS contains an error form."
+  (let ((ls (if (eq (car-safe ls) 'vec) (cdr ls) ls)))
+    (memq t (mapcar (lambda (x) (eq (car-safe x) 'sdev)) ls))))
 
 ;;; Coerce integer A to be a small integer.  [S I]
 (defun math-fixnum (a)