The functions erf and erfc computed with arbitrary precision and explicit error bounds

DOI10.1016/J.IC.2011.09.001MaRDI QIDQ714627zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Kharzeev

Publication date 11 October 2012

Published in Information and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2011.09.001

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmsarbitrary precisioncomplementary error functionerror functionfloating-point arithmeticmultiple precisionnumerical examplesroundoff errors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of group and pseudogroup actions (22F05) Incomplete beta and gamma functions (error functions, probability integral, Fresnel integrals) (33B20) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

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Uses Software

• mctoolbox
• Algorithm 524
• MPFR
• ARPREC

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