s15ag: FL CL CPP AD

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s15agf (erfcx_real)

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s15ag: FL CL CPP AD

▸▿ 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

s15agf returns the value of the scaled complementary error function

erfcx (x)

, via the function name.

2 Specification

Fortran Interface

Function s15agf (

x, ifail)

Real (Kind=nag_wp)	::	s15agf
Integer, Intent (Inout)	::	ifail
Real (Kind=nag_wp), Intent (In)	::	x

C Header Interface

#include <nag.h>

double

s15agf_ (const double *x, Integer *ifail)

The routine may be called by the names s15agf or nagf_specfun_erfcx_real.

3 Description

s15agf calculates an approximate value for the scaled complementary error function

erfcx (x) = e^{x^{2}} erfc (x) = \frac{2}{\sqrt{π}} e^{x^{2}} \int_{x}^{\infty} e^{- t^{2}} d t = e^{x^{2}} (1 - \erf (x)) .

Let

\hat{x}

be the root of the equation

erfc (x) - \erf (x) = 0

(then

\hat{x} \approx 0.46875

). For

| x | \leq \hat{x}

the value of

erfcx (x)

is based on the following rational Chebyshev expansion for

\erf (x)

\erf (x) \approx x R_{ℓ, m} (x^{2}),

where

R_{ℓ, m}

denotes a rational function of degree

ℓ

in the numerator and

m

in the denominator.

For

| x | > \hat{x}

the value of

erfcx (x)

is based on a rational Chebyshev expansion for

erfc (x)

: for

\hat{x} < | x | \leq 4

the value is based on the expansion

erfc (x) \approx e^{x^{2}} R_{ℓ, m} (x);

and for

| x | > 4

it is based on the expansion

erfc (x) \approx \frac{e^{x^{2}}}{x} (\frac{1}{\sqrt{π}} + \frac{1}{x^{2}} R_{ℓ, m} (1 / x^{2})) .

For each expansion, the specific values of

ℓ

and

m

are selected to be minimal such that the maximum relative error in the expansion is of the order

10^{- d}

, where

d

is the maximum number of decimal digits that can be accurately represented for the particular implementation (see x02bef).

Asymptotically,

erfcx (x) \sim 1 / (\sqrt{π} | x |)

. There is a danger of setting underflow in

erfcx (x)

whenever

x \geq x_{hi} = \min (x_{huge}, 1 / (\sqrt{π} x_{tiny}))

, where

x_{huge}

is the largest positive model number (see x02alf) and

x_{tiny}

is the smallest positive model number (see x02akf). In this case s15agf exits with

ifail = 1

and returns

erfcx (x) = 0

. For

x

in the range

1 / (2 \sqrt{ε}) \leq x < x_{hi}

, where

ε

is the machine precision, the asymptotic value

1 / (\sqrt{π} | x |)

is returned for

erfcx (x)

and s15agf exits with

ifail = 2

There is a danger of setting overflow in

e^{x^{2}}

whenever

x < x_{neg} = - \sqrt{\log (x_{huge} / 2)}

. In this case s15agf exits with

ifail = 3

and returns

erfcx (x) = x_{huge}

The values of

x_{hi}

1 / (2 \sqrt{ε})

and

x_{neg}

are given in the Users' Note for your implementation.

4 References

NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

Cody W J (1969) Rational Chebyshev approximations for the error function Math.Comp. 23 631–637

5 Arguments

1: $x$ – Real (Kind=nag_wp) Input: On entry: the argument $x$ of the function.
2: $ifail$ – Integer Input/Output: On entry: ifail must be set to $0$ , $−1$ or $1$ to set behaviour on detection of an error; these values have no effect when no error is detected.
A value of $0$ causes the printing of an error message and program execution will be halted; otherwise program execution continues. A value of $−1$ means that an error message is printed while a value of $1$ means that it is not.

If halting is not appropriate, the value $−1$ or $1$ is recommended. If message printing is undesirable, then the value $1$ is recommended. Otherwise, the value $−1$ is recommended since useful values can be provided in some output arguments even when $ifail \neq 0$ on exit. 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:

Note: in some cases s15agf may return useful information.

$ifail = 1$: On entry, $x = ⟨ value ⟩$ and the constant $x_{hi} = ⟨ value ⟩$ .
Constraint: $x < x_{hi}$ .

$ifail = 2$: On entry, $| x |$ was in the interval $[⟨ value ⟩, ⟨ value ⟩)$ where $erfcx (x)$ is approximately $1 / (\sqrt{π} \times | x |)$ : $x = ⟨ value ⟩$ .

$ifail = 3$: On entry, $x = ⟨ value ⟩$ and the constant $x_{neg} = ⟨ value ⟩$ .
Constraint: $x \geq x_{neg}$ .

$ifail = - 99$: An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please contact NAG.
See Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.

$ifail = - 399$: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 8 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.

$ifail = - 999$: Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 9 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.

7 Accuracy

The relative error in computing

erfcx (x)

may be estimated by evaluating

E = \frac{erfcx (x) - e^{x^{2}} \sum_{n = 1}^{\infty} I^{n} erfc (x)}{erfcx (x)},

where

I^{n}

denotes repeated integration. Empirical results suggest that on the interval

(\hat{x}, 2)

the loss in base

b

significant digits for maximum relative error is around

3.3

, while for root-mean-square relative error on that interval it is

1.2

(see x02bhf for the definition of the model parameter

b

). On the interval

(2, 20)

the values are around

3.5

for maximum and

0.45

for root-mean-square relative errors; note that on these two intervals

erfc (x)

is the primary computation. See also Section 7 in s15adf.

8 Parallelism and Performance

s15agf 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.

s15ag: FL CL CPP AD

NAG FL Interfaces15agf (erfcx_​real)

▸▿ 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

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s15agf (erfcx_real)