Re: help (with Bessel)

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:10, Uri David Akavia wrote:
> > Ah, but that is not what bessely(4.5,6) in XL, gnumeric, and OO stands
> > for.
> > bessely(4.5,6) is the value of the Bessel function Y of order 6 for
> > x=4.5.
> >
> > Andreas
>
> So replacing the order of the numbers should give the result he got in
> Mathlab, right? This isn't the case.
> bessely(6,4.5) gives you 0.09839.
> Am I missing something?

gnumeric and XL (and probably OO) do not do fractional orders. So
bessely(6,4.5) really calculates bessely(6,4). This is documented in the
function description.

Andreas

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Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow taliesin ca>
Taliesin

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