NAG C Library Function Document

nag_struve_h0 (s17gac)

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Purpose

nag_struve_h0 (s17gac) returns the value of the Struve function of order 0, H0x.

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Specification

#include <nag.h>
#include <nags.h>
double  nag_struve_h0 (double x, NagError *fail)

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Description

nag_struve_h0 (s17gac) evaluates an approximation to the Struve function of order zero, H0x.
Please consult the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions for a detailed discussion of the Struve function including special cases, transformations, relations and asymptotic approximations.
The approximation method used by this function is based on Chebyshev expansions.

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References

NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
MacLeod A J (1996) MISCFUN, a software package to compute uncommon special functions ACM Trans. Math. Software (TOMS) 22(3) 288–301

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Arguments

1:     x doubleInput
On entry: the argument x of the function.
Constraint: x 1 ε 2  where ε is the machine precision as returned by nag_machine_precision (X02AJC).
2:     fail NagError *Input/Output
The NAG error argument (see Section 3.7 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation).

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Error Indicators and Warnings

NE_ALLOC_FAIL
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 2.3.1.2 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_INTERNAL_ERROR
An internal error has occurred in this function. Check the function call and any array sizes. If the call is correct then please contact NAG for assistance.
See Section 2.7.6 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_NO_LICENCE
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 2.7.5 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.
NE_REAL
x is too large and the function returns zero.

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Accuracy

The Chebyshev coefficients used by this function are internally represented to 20 digits of precision. Calling the number of digits of precision in the floating-point arithmetic being used t, then clearly the maximum number of correct digits in the results obtained is limited by p=mint,20.
Apart from this, rounding errors in internal arithmetic may result in a slight loss of accuracy, but it is reasonable to assume that the result is accurate to within a small multiple of the machine precision.

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Parallelism and Performance

nag_struve_h0 (s17gac) is not threaded in any implementation.

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Further Comments

For x > 1 ε 2 , H0x is asymptotically close to the Bessel function Y0x which is approximately zero to machine precision.

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Example

This example reads values of the argument x from a file, evaluates the function at each value of x and prints the results.

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Program Text

Program Text (s17gace.c)

10.2
Program Data

Program Data (s17gace.d)

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Program Results

Program Results (s17gace.r)

GnuplotProduced by GNUPLOT 5.0 patchlevel 3 −0.8 −0.6 −0.4 −0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 −10 −8 −6 −4 −2 0 2 4 6 8 10 H0(x) x Example Program Returns values for the Struve Function H0(x) "s17gafe.r"