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1 ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008 John W. Eaton
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3 ## This file is part of Octave.
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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8 ## your option) any later version.
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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13 ## General Public License for more details.
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14 ##
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Loadable Function} {[@var{j}, @var{ierr}] =} besselj (@var{alpha}, @var{x}, @var{opt})
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {[@var{y}, @var{ierr}] =} bessely (@var{alpha}, @var{x}, @var{opt})
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {[@var{i}, @var{ierr}] =} besseli (@var{alpha}, @var{x}, @var{opt})
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23 ## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {[@var{k}, @var{ierr}] =} besselk (@var{alpha}, @var{x}, @var{opt})
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24 ## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {[@var{h}, @var{ierr}] =} besselh (@var{alpha}, @var{k}, @var{x}, @var{opt})
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25 ## Compute Bessel or Hankel functions of various kinds:
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26 ##
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27 ## @table @code
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28 ## @item besselj
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29 ## Bessel functions of the first kind. If the argument @var{opt} is supplied,
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30 ## the result is multiplied by @code{exp(-abs(imag(x)))}.
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31 ## @item bessely
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32 ## Bessel functions of the second kind. If the argument @var{opt} is supplied,
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33 ## the result is multiplied by @code{exp(-abs(imag(x)))}.
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34 ## @item besseli
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35 ## Modified Bessel functions of the first kind. If the argument @var{opt} is supplied,
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36 ## the result is multiplied by @code{exp(-abs(real(x)))}.
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37 ## @item besselk
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38 ## Modified Bessel functions of the second kind. If the argument @var{opt} is supplied,
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39 ## the result is multiplied by @code{exp(x)}.
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40 ## @item besselh
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41 ## Compute Hankel functions of the first (@var{k} = 1) or second (@var{k}
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42 ## = 2) kind. If the argument @var{opt} is supplied, the result is multiplied by
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43 ## @code{exp (-I*@var{x})} for @var{k} = 1 or @code{exp (I*@var{x})} for
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44 ## @var{k} = 2.
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45 ## @end table
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46 ##
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47 ## If @var{alpha} is a scalar, the result is the same size as @var{x}.
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48 ## If @var{x} is a scalar, the result is the same size as @var{alpha}.
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49 ## If @var{alpha} is a row vector and @var{x} is a column vector, the
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50 ## result is a matrix with @code{length (@var{x})} rows and
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51 ## @code{length (@var{alpha})} columns. Otherwise, @var{alpha} and
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52 ## @var{x} must conform and the result will be the same size.
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53 ##
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54 ## The value of @var{alpha} must be real. The value of @var{x} may be
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55 ## complex.
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56 ##
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57 ## If requested, @var{ierr} contains the following status information
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58 ## and is the same size as the result.
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59 ##
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60 ## @enumerate 0
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61 ## @item
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62 ## Normal return.
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63 ## @item
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64 ## Input error, return @code{NaN}.
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65 ## @item
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66 ## Overflow, return @code{Inf}.
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67 ## @item
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68 ## Loss of significance by argument reduction results in less than
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69 ## half of machine accuracy.
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70 ## @item
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71 ## Complete loss of significance by argument reduction, return @code{NaN}.
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72 ## @item
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73 ## Error---no computation, algorithm termination condition not met,
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74 ## return @code{NaN}.
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75 ## @end enumerate
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76 ## @end deftypefn
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78 function bessel ()
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79 error ("bessel: you must use besselj, bessely, besseli, or besselk");
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80 endfunction
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