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 $0$ is recommended. 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: $|x| \leq E_{1}$ .
The routine has been called with an argument too large in absolute magnitude. There is a danger of overflow. The result returned is the value of $\cosh x$ at the nearest valid argument.

$ifail = - 99$: 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

δ

and

ε

are the relative errors in the argument and result, respectively, then in principle

ε ≃ x \tanh x \times δ .

That is, the relative error in the argument,

x

, is amplified by a factor, at least

x \tanh x

. The equality should hold if

δ

is greater than the machine precision (

δ

is due to data errors etc.) but if

δ

is simply a result of round-off in the machine representation of

x

then it is possible that an extra figure may be lost in internal calculation round-off.

The behaviour of the error amplification factor is shown by the following graph:

Figure 1

It should be noted that near

x = 0

where this amplification factor tends to zero the accuracy will be limited eventually by the machine precision. Also, for

|x| \geq 2

ε \sim x δ = Δ

where

Δ

is the absolute error in the argument

x

8 Parallelism and Performance

s10acf 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.

s10ac: FL CL CPP AD

NAG FL Interfaces10acf (cosh)

▸▿ 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

NAG FL Interface
s10acf (cosh)