Global approximations to the principal real-valued branch of the Lambert W-function

DOI10.1016/S0893-9659(98)00097-4MaRDI QIDQ1808573zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors John P. Boyd

Publication date 27 July 2000

Published in Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

global approximationLambert \(W\)-functionNewton iterationsrational Chebyshev function series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Hypergeometric functions associated with root systems (33C67)

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Uses Software

• WAPR
• Algorithm 443

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