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

Information and Computation

Volumn 216, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-95

  Chevillard, S ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Arbitrary precision; Complementary error function; erf; erfc; Error function; Floating point arithmetic; Multiple precision

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY PRECISION; ERF; ERFC; ERROR FUNCTION; FLOATING-POINT ARITHMETIC; MULTIPLE PRECISION;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84861627699     PISSN: 08905401     EISSN: 10902651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ic.2011.09.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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