[SciPy-User] [SciPy-user] problem with documentation for `jn` and `jv` Bessel functions

[Dr. Phillip M. Feldman]

The documentation for `jv` and `jn` in
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/special.html#module-scipy.special
needs some fixing. I believe that `jn` evaluates the Bessel function of the
first kind for integer order n at complex z, and that `jv` evaluates the
Bessel function of the first kind for real order v at complex z. (I tried
to edit the page in question, but although I can log in, I'm unable to
actually edit anything).
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[Robert Kern]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 20:33, Dr. Phillip M. Feldman
<pfel...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> The documentation for `jv` and `jn` in
> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/special.html#module-scipy.special
> needs some fixing. I believe that `jn` evaluates the Bessel function of the
> first kind for integer order n at complex z, and that `jv` evaluates the
> Bessel function of the first kind for real order v at complex z.  (I tried
> to edit the page in question, but although I can log in, I'm unable to
> actually edit anything).

jn() is currently just an alias to jv(). The jn() implementation was
found to be buggy for certain combinations of inputs and the floating
point algorithm for jv() wasn't too bad performancewise over an
integer algorithm.

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Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
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