Re: Bessel Functions and Thumbscrews

[Robert T. Short]

On 03/02/2012 11:17 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 2 March 2012 12:58, Robert T. Short<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Following up on a post and bug report several weeks ago.
> >
> > I have attached a patch in which I added a bunch of tests to
> > bessel{j,y,i,k}.
> Thanks, this is helpful. I've pushed your patch and made a few style fixes:
>
>      http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/e28a1723d5a2
>
> For future reference, you can use the three-argument calling form of
> assert for testing relative instead of absolute tolerance (pass a
> negative argument there). This is helpful because it produces a better
> diagnostic if the assertion fails.
>
> I also changed to xtest the two tests that failed on my machine. One
> of them seems to be getting the signs wrong for some entries. The
> other one seems to be getting the precision wrong.
>
> - Jordi G. H.
Jordi, would you please run the attached script and send me the 
results?  It will produce a series of "testcase??.mat" files.  No rush.

Bob

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