Numerical evaluation of the confluent hypergeometric function for complex arguments of large magnitudes (Q1186908)

The authors describe a numerical evaluator for the confluent hypergeometric function for complex arguments with large magnitudes using a direct summation of Kummer's series. Extended precision subroutines using large integer arrays to accumulate a single numerator and denominator are ultimately used in a single division to arrive at the final result. The accuracy has been verified through a variety of tests and they show the evaluator to be consistently accurate to thirteen significant figures, and on rare occasion accurate to only nine for magnitudes of the arguments ranging into the thousands in any quadrant in the complex plane.