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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:39:59 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Use of C99 extra long double math functions after r236148
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On 07/09/2012 12:02 AM, Steve Kargl wrote:

> Yep.  Another example is the use of upward recurion to compute
> Bessel functions where the argument is larger than the order.
> The algorithm is known to be unstable.

By upward recursion, do you mean equation (1) in 
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BesselFunction.html?

So what do people use.  Maybe something like 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel_function#Asymptotic_forms (second 
set of equations), but finding some asymptotics with a few extra terms 
in them?




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