On exit: the values of the partial derivatives of the interpolant
at
, for
. If any of these evaluation points lie outside the region of definition of the interpolant, the corresponding entries in
qx and
qy are set to the largest machine representable number (see
nag_real_largest_number (X02ALC)), and nag_2d_shep_eval (e01shc) returns with
NE_BAD_INTERPOLANT.