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

None.

7 Accuracy

δ

and

ε

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

| ε | ≃ | \frac{x}{\sqrt{1 + x^{2}} arcsinh x} δ | .

That is, the relative error in the argument,

x

, is amplified by a factor at least

\frac{x}{\sqrt{1 + x^{2}} arcsinh x}

, in the result.

The equality should hold if

δ

is greater than the machine precision (

δ

due to data errors etc.) but if

δ

is simply due to round-off in the machine representation it is possible that an extra figure may be lost in internal calculation round-off.

The behaviour of the amplification factor is shown in the following graph:

Figure 1

It should be noted that this factor is always less than or equal to one. For large

x

we have the absolute error in the result,

E

, in principle, given by

E \sim δ .

This means that eventually accuracy is limited by machine precision.

Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.

s11abf is not threaded in any implementation.

None.

This example reads values of the argument

x

from a file, evaluates the function at each value of

x

and prints the results.

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