SLATEC Routines --- BI ---


*DECK BI
      FUNCTION BI (X)
C***BEGIN PROLOGUE  BI
C***PURPOSE  Evaluate the Bairy function (the Airy function of the
C            second kind).
C***LIBRARY   SLATEC (FNLIB)
C***CATEGORY  C10D
C***TYPE      SINGLE PRECISION (BI-S, DBI-D)
C***KEYWORDS  BAIRY FUNCTION, FNLIB, SPECIAL FUNCTIONS
C***AUTHOR  Fullerton, W., (LANL)
C***DESCRIPTION
C
C BI(X) calculates the Airy function of the second kind for real
C argument X.
C
C Series for BIF        on the interval -1.00000D+00 to  1.00000D+00
C                                        with weighted error   1.88E-19
C                                         log weighted error  18.72
C                               significant figures required  17.74
C                                    decimal places required  19.20
C
C Series for BIG        on the interval -1.00000D+00 to  1.00000D+00
C                                        with weighted error   2.61E-17
C                                         log weighted error  16.58
C                               significant figures required  15.17
C                                    decimal places required  17.03
C
C Series for BIF2       on the interval  1.00000D+00 to  8.00000D+00
C                                        with weighted error   1.11E-17
C                                         log weighted error  16.95
C                        approx significant figures required  16.5
C                                    decimal places required  17.45
C
C Series for BIG2       on the interval  1.00000D+00 to  8.00000D+00
C                                        with weighted error   1.19E-18
C                                         log weighted error  17.92
C                        approx significant figures required  17.2
C                                    decimal places required  18.42
C
C***REFERENCES  (NONE)
C***ROUTINES CALLED  BIE, CSEVL, INITS, R1MACH, R9AIMP, XERMSG
C***REVISION HISTORY  (YYMMDD)
C   770701  DATE WRITTEN
C   890531  Changed all specific intrinsics to generic.  (WRB)
C   890531  REVISION DATE from Version 3.2
C   891214  Prologue converted to Version 4.0 format.  (BAB)
C   900315  CALLs to XERROR changed to CALLs to XERMSG.  (THJ)
C   900326  Removed duplicate information from DESCRIPTION section.
C           (WRB)
C***END PROLOGUE  BI