[Maxima] Bessel big floats

Raymond Toy toy.raymond at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 22:47:51 CDT 2008


Richard Hennessy wrote:
> I am getting weird results when I try to compute the bessel_k function to 40 or 50 places.  I think that the bessel_k function is just returning a float and the big float is just random digits from the 17th digit on.  Is this the correct analysis?
>
>   
Yes.  AFAIK there is no bigfloat implementation of the bessel functions.

Ray


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