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2002 Oct 17
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underflow handling in besselK (PR#2179)
The besselK() function knows about overflows/underflows internally; there is a constant xmax_BESS_K in src/nmath/bessel.h (and referred to only in bessel_k.c), equal to 705.342, which is checked if expon.scaled is FALSE. (The equivalent number for bessel_i.c is 709, defined as exparg_BESS in bessel.h.) However, besselK(x) silently returns +Inf if x>705.342. This behavior is reasonable for be...