The Mathematical-Function Computation Handbook. Programming Using the MathCW Portable Software Library

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxvi
 Introduction  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 1-6
 Iterative solutions and other tools  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 7-22
 Polynomial approximations  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 23-60
 Implementation issues  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 61-104
 The floating-point environment  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 105-128
 Converting floating-point values to integers  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 129-156
 Random numbers  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 157-214
 Roots  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 215-242
 Argument reduction  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 243-266
 Exponential and logarithm  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 267-298
 Trigonometric functions  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 299-340
 Hyperbolic functions  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 341-352
 Pair-precision arithmetic  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 353-410
 Power function  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 411-440
 Complex arithmetic primitives  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 441-464
 Quadratic equations  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 465-474
 Elementary functions in complex arithmetic  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 475-520
 The Greek functions: gamma, psi, and zeta  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 521-592
 Error and probability functions  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 593-618
 Elliptic integral functions  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 619-692
 Bessel functions  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 693-762
 Testing the library  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 763-776
 Pair-precision elementary functions  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 777-810
 Accuracy of the Cody/Waite algorithms  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 811-822
 Improving upon the Cody/Waite algorithms  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 823-828
 Floating-point output  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 829-878
 Floating-point input  (Nelson H. F. Beebe)....Pages 879-910
Back Matter ....Pages 911-1115