On 11/8/2011 12:55 PM, Edwin Woollett wrote:
> Is it possible to return an error in bessel.lisp
> when, for example, the numerical value of
> a bessel function is so large that the code/system
> can't cope, and the answer returned for a calculation
> is completely wrong?
>
The "right" solution is to roll over to another computer program that
uses bigfloats and an appropriate algorithm for the argument values, and
gives the right answer. (This is one of the things that Mathematica
claims to do.)
RJF