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 Post subject: First use of ALGLIB
PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:14 pm 
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Hi,

I have just now switched to ALGLIB from GSL for my special math function needs.

Why? Your ellipticintegralk == Wolfram's EllipticK >> GSL's gsl_sf_ellint_Kcomp
GSL cannot handle a negative argument (it takes the sqrt of what yours and Wolfram's take, which is a bad design decision IMHO).

One thing though: I'm using mingw-w64 (64-bit gcc on windows) and had to remove all #include <stdafx.h>
These shouldn't even be there IMHO, and are bad cross-platformability. There's no hurt in removing them I believe, except making the code more standard.

I only needed 9 files from ALGLIB, and only 4 source files had that include.

ALGLIB works great though!


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 Post subject: Re: First use of ALGLIB
PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:24 am 
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Rewind that last sentence of my first post...

The ALGLIB (c++) function ellipticintegralk does not work properly:

Wolfram Alpha
EllipticK(-96)=0.3737
ALGLIB
ellipticintegralk(-96.)=-1.5E15

What is wrong and how can it be fixed?

Thanks!


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 Post subject: Re: First use of ALGLIB
PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:18 pm 
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Regarding integral. ALGLIB uses high-quality implementation of elliptic integrals from Cephes, but this implementation is restricted to m's within [0,1]. There is remark about it in the subroutine comments, although it may be not clear enough. However, you can use reduction formula from Abramowitz and Stegun (17.4.15, 17.4.17) to reduce m to [0,1].

About stdafx.h - it is required by MSVC, without it compilation will require additional tuning of compiler parameters. There is an empty file in the /src directory which can be used. So I think that this is not very serious problem.


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