diff --git a/books/bookvolbib.pamphlet b/books/bookvolbib.pamphlet index cc7009a..ddab7df 100644 --- a/books/bookvolbib.pamphlet +++ b/books/bookvolbib.pamphlet @@ -3047,7 +3047,33 @@ Math. Tables Aids Comput. 10 91--96. (1956) ``On square-free decomposition algorithms''\\ {\sl Proceedings of SYMSAC'76} pages 26-35, 1976 -\section{Special Topics} +\section{Special Topics} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +\subsection{Special Functions} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +\subsubsection{Exponential Integral $E_1(x)$} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + +\bibitem[Segletes 98]{Se98} Segletes, S.B.\\ +``A compact analytical fit to the exponential integral $E_1(x)$\\ +Technical Report ARL-TR-1758, U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory,\\ +Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, September 1998 + +\bibitem[Segletes 09]{Se09} Segletes, S.B.\\ +``Improved fits for $E_1(x)$ {\sl vis-\'a-vis} those presented in ARL-TR-1758\\ +Technical Report ARL-TR-1758, U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory,\\ +Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, September 1998 + +\begin{adjustwidth}{2.5em}{0pt} +This is a writeup detailing the more accurate fits to $E_1(x)$, +relative to those presented in ARL-TR-1758. My actual fits are to +\[F1 =[x\ exp(x) E_1(x)]\] which spans a functional range from 0 to 1. +The best accuracy I have been yet able to achieve, defined by limiting +the value of \[[(F1)_{fit} - F1]/F1\] over the domain, is approximately +3.1E-07 with a 12-parameter fit, which unfortunately isn't quite to 32-bit +floating-point accuracy. Nonetheless, the fit is not a piecewise fit, +but rather a single continuous function over the domain of nonnegative x, +which avoids some of the problems associated with piecewise domain splicing. +\end{adjustwidth} \subsection{Polynomial GCD} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% diff --git a/changelog b/changelog index c10b60e..8d83184 100644 --- a/changelog +++ b/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +20140606 tpd src/axiom-website/patches.html 20140606.04.tpd.patch +20140606 tpd books/bookvolbib add special functions / exponential integral 20140606 tpd src/axiom-website/patches.html 20140606.03.tpd.patch 20140606 tpd book/*.txt email cleanup 20140606 tpd src/axiom-website/patches.html 20140606.02.tpd.patch diff --git a/src/axiom-website/patches.html b/src/axiom-website/patches.html index 4ca6780..34973c7 100644 --- a/src/axiom-website/patches.html +++ b/src/axiom-website/patches.html @@ -4392,6 +4392,8 @@ Makefile copy books/changepage.sty to ${MNT}/${SYS}/doc books/Makefile remove style and def files from final distro 20140606.03.tpd.patch book/*.txt email cleanup +20140606.04.tpd.patch +books/bookvolbib add special functions / exponential integral