NAG FL Interface
s11acf (arccosh)

1 Purpose

s11acf returns the value of the inverse hyperbolic cosine, arccoshx, via the function name. The result is in the principal positive branch.

2 Specification

Fortran Interface
Function s11acf ( x, ifail)
Real (Kind=nag_wp) :: s11acf
Integer, Intent (Inout) :: ifail
Real (Kind=nag_wp), Intent (In) :: x
C Header Interface
#include <nag.h>
double  s11acf_ (const double *x, Integer *ifail)
The routine may be called by the names s11acf or nagf_specfun_arccosh.

3 Description

s11acf calculates an approximate value for the inverse hyperbolic cosine, arccoshx. It is based on the relation
arccoshx=lnx+x2-1.  
This form is used directly for 1<x<10k, where k=n/2+1, and the machine uses approximately n decimal place arithmetic.
For x10k, x2-1 is equal to x to within the accuracy of the machine and hence we can guard against premature overflow and, without loss of accuracy, calculate
arccoshx=ln2+lnx.  

4 References

NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

5 Arguments

1: x Real (Kind=nag_wp) Input
On entry: the argument x of the function.
Constraint: x1.0.
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 or -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: x1.0.
The routine has been called with an argument less than 1.0, for which arccoshx is not defined.
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

If δ and ε are the relative errors in the argument and result respectively, then in principle
ε x x2-1 arccoshx ×δ .  
That is the relative error in the argument is amplified by a factor at least xx2-1arccoshx in the result. The equality should apply if δ is greater than the machine precision (δ due to data errors etc.) but if δ is simply a result of round-off in the machine representation it is possible that an extra figure may be lost in internal calculation and round-off. The behaviour of the amplification factor is shown in the following graph:
Figure 1
Figure 1
It should be noted that for x>2 the factor is always less than 1.0. For large x we have the absolute error E in the result, in principle, given by
Eδ.  
This means that eventually accuracy is limited by machine precision. More significantly for x close to 1, x-1δ, the above analysis becomes inapplicable due to the fact that both function and argument are bounded, x1, arccoshx0. In this region we have
Eδ.  
That is, there will be approximately half as many decimal places correct in the result as there were correct figures in the argument.

8 Parallelism and Performance

s11acf 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.

10.1 Program Text

Program Text (s11acfe.f90)

10.2 Program Data

Program Data (s11acfe.d)

10.3 Program Results

Program Results (s11acfe.r)