Subject: renaming undocumented Bessel functions g0, g1, gn
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:46:27 -0600
On 7/22/06, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> They are mentioned in the commercial Macsyma documentation.
> They are Modified Bessel functions 1st kind, times exp(-|X|) G0(X), G1(X),
> GN(X,N)
>
> They are not really bessel functions, or are they??
Well, bessel_foo seems close enough. I agree they're not exactly
Bessel functions but they're certainly pretty close.
For comparison, in Maxima, modified Bessel functions are bessel_i
and bessel_k, and not modified_bessel_i, modified_bessel_k.
Robert