Efficient computation of erfc(x) for large arguments

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 529-532

  Tellambura, C ^a   Annamalai, A ^b,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Error function; Fourier analysis; Numerical methods; Sampling theorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747783314     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.843116     Document Type: Article

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