NAG Library Routine Document

1: $x$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp)Input: On entry: the argument $x$ of the function.

Constraint: $x > 0.0$ .
2: $ifail$ – IntegerInput/Output: On entry: ifail must be set to $0$ , $- 1 or 1$ . If you are unfamiliar with this argument you should refer to Section 3.4 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for details.
For environments where it might be inappropriate to halt program execution when an error is detected, the value $- 1 or 1$ is recommended. If the output of error messages is undesirable, then the value $1$ is recommended. Otherwise, if you are not familiar with this argument, the recommended value is $0$ . When the value $- 1 or 1$ is used it is essential to test the value of ifail on exit.

On exit: $ifail = 0$ unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see Section 6).

6

Error Indicators and Warnings

If on entry

ifail = 0

- 1

, explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by x04aaf).

Errors or warnings detected by the routine:

$ifail = 1$: On entry, $x = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $x > 0.0$ .
The routine has been called with an argument less than or equal to zero for which $Ci (x)$ is not defined.

$ifail = - 99$: An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please contact NAG.
See Section 3.9 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.

$ifail = - 399$: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 3.8 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.

$ifail = - 999$: Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 3.7 in How to Use the NAG Library and its Documentation for further information.

7

Accuracy

E

and

ε

are the absolute and relative errors in the result and

δ

is the relative error in the argument then in principle these are related by

|E| ≃ |δ \cos x| and ​ |ε| ≃ |\frac{δ \cos x}{Ci (x)}| .

That is accuracy will be limited by machine precision near the origin and near the zeros of

\cos x

, but near the zeros of

Ci (x)

only absolute accuracy can be maintained.

The behaviour of this amplification is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

For large values of

x

Ci (x) \sim \frac{\sin x}{x}

therefore

ε \sim δ x \cot x

and since

δ

is limited by the finite precision of the machine it becomes impossible to return results which have any relative accuracy. That is, when

x \geq 1 / δ

we have that

|Ci (x)| \leq 1 / x \sim E

and hence is not significantly different from zero.

Hence

x_{hi}

is chosen such that for values of

x \geq x_{hi}

Ci (x)

in principle would have values less than the machine precision and so is essentially zero.

8

Parallelism and Performance

s13acf is not threaded in any implementation.

9

Further Comments

None.

10

Example

This example reads values of the argument

x

from a file, evaluates the function at each value of

x

and prints the results.

NAG Library Routine Document

s13acf (integral_cos)

▸▿ Contents

1 Purpose

2 Specification

3 Description

4 References

5 Arguments

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

7 Accuracy

8 Parallelism and Performance

9 Further Comments

10 Example

10.1 Program Text

10.2 Program Data

10.3 Program Results

1

Purpose

2

Specification

3

Description

4

References

5

Arguments

6

Error Indicators and Warnings

7

Accuracy

8

Parallelism and Performance

9

Further Comments

10

Example

10.1

Program Text

10.2

Program Data

10.3

Program Results