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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Loadable Function} {[@var{j}, @var{ierr}] =} besselj (@var{alpha}, @var{x}, @var{opt})
## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {[@var{y}, @var{ierr}] =} bessely (@var{alpha}, @var{x}, @var{opt})
## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {[@var{i}, @var{ierr}] =} besseli (@var{alpha}, @var{x}, @var{opt})
## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {[@var{k}, @var{ierr}] =} besselk (@var{alpha}, @var{x}, @var{opt})
## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {[@var{h}, @var{ierr}] =} besselh (@var{alpha}, @var{k}, @var{x}, @var{opt})
## Compute Bessel or Hankel functions of various kinds:
## 
## @table @code
## @item besselj
## Bessel functions of the first kind. If the argument @var{opt} is supplied, 
## the result is multiplied by @code{exp(-abs(imag(x)))}.
## @item bessely
## Bessel functions of the second kind. If the argument @var{opt} is supplied,
## the result is multiplied by @code{exp(-abs(imag(x)))}.
## @item besseli
## Modified Bessel functions of the first kind.  If the argument @var{opt} is supplied,
## the result is multiplied by @code{exp(-abs(real(x)))}.
## @item besselk
## Modified Bessel functions of the second kind.  If the argument @var{opt} is supplied,
## the result is multiplied by @code{exp(x)}.
## @item besselh
## Compute Hankel functions of the first (@var{k} = 1) or second (@var{k}
## = 2) kind. If the argument @var{opt} is supplied, the result is multiplied by
## @code{exp (-I*@var{x})} for @var{k} = 1 or @code{exp (I*@var{x})} for
## @var{k} = 2.
## @end table
## 
## If @var{alpha} is a scalar, the result is the same size as @var{x}.
## If @var{x} is a scalar, the result is the same size as @var{alpha}.
## If @var{alpha} is a row vector and @var{x} is a column vector, the
## result is a matrix with @code{length (@var{x})} rows and
## @code{length (@var{alpha})} columns.  Otherwise, @var{alpha} and
## @var{x} must conform and the result will be the same size.
## 
## The value of @var{alpha} must be real. The value of @var{x} may be
## complex.
## 
## If requested, @var{ierr} contains the following status information
## and is the same size as the result.
## 
## @enumerate 0
## @item
## Normal return.
## @item
## Input error, return @code{NaN}.
## @item
## Overflow, return @code{Inf}.
## @item
## Loss of significance by argument reduction results in less than
## half of machine accuracy.
## @item
## Complete loss of significance by argument reduction, return @code{NaN}.
## @item
## Error---no computation, algorithm termination condition not met,
## return @code{NaN}.
## @end enumerate
## @end deftypefn

function bessel ()
  error ("bessel: you must use besselj, bessely, besseli, or besselk");
endfunction