test_values

test_values, a C code which supplies test values of various mathematical functions, including Abramowitz, AGM, Airy, Bell, Bernoulli, Bessel, Beta, Binomial, Bivariate Normal, Catalan, Cauchy, Chebyshev, Chi Square, Clausen, Clebsch Gordan, Collatz, Cosine integral, Dawson, Debye, Dedekind, dilogarithm, Dixon elliptic functions, Exponential integral, Elliptic, Error, Euler, Exponential integral, F probability, Fresnel, Frobenius, Gamma, Gegenbauer, Goodwin, Gudermannian, Harmonic, Hermite, Hypergeometric 1F1, Hypergeometric 2F1, inverse trigonometic, Jacobi, Julian Ephemeris Date, Kelvin, Laguerre, Lambert W, Laplace, Legendre, Lerch, Lobachevsky, Lobatto, Logarithmic integral, Log normal, McNugget numbers, Mertens, Mittag-Leffler, Moebius, Multinomial, Negative binomial, Nine J, Normal, Omega, Owen, Partition, Phi, Pi, Poisson, Polylogarithm, Polynomial Resultant, Polyomino, Prime, Psi, Rayleigh, Hyperbolic Sine integral, Sigma, Sine Power integral, Sine integral, Six J, Sphere area, Sphere volume, Spherical harmonic, Stirling, Stromgen, Struve, Student, Subfactorial, Student probability, Three J, Transport, Trigamma, Truncated normal, van der Corput, von Mises, Weibull, Wright omega, Zeta.

The code provides very simple tests for correctness of software designed to compute a variety of functions. The testing can be done automatically. The data provided is generally skimpy, and might not test the algorithm over a suitably wide range. It does, however, provide a small amount of reassurance that a given computation is (or is not) computing the appropriate quantity, and doing so reasonably accurately.

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

test_values is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version and an R version.

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Reference:

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    Handbook of Mathematical Functions,
    National Bureau of Standards, 1964,
    ISBN: 0-486-61272-4,
    LC: QA47.A34.
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    On the Lambert W Function,
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    in Algorithms - ESA '97,
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    edited by R Burkard, G Woeginger,
    Springer, 1997, pages 92-103,
    LC: QA76.9.A43.E83.
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    Computing the Summation of the Moebius Function,
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    "Why W?",
    The American Scientist,
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    Second edition,
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    Fourth Edition,
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    30th Edition,
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    Standard Probability and Statistical Tables,
    CRC Press, 2000,
    ISBN: 1-58488-059-7,
    LC: QA273.3.Z95.

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Last revised on 20 June 2023.