Software needs in special functions

DOI10.1016/0377-0427(95)00181-6zbMath0855.65009OpenAlexW2083087217MaRDI QIDQ1919385

Daniel W. Lozier

Publication date: 23 July 1996

Published in: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-0427(95)00181-6

zbMATH Keywords

testingspecial functionsnumerical algorithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to special functions (33-04)

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Uses Software

• Maple
• Mathematica
• Matlab
• MACSYMA
• Slatec
• IMSL Numerical Libraries
• nag
• NSWC
• Cephes

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