Additive blending of local approximations into a globally-valid approximation with application to the dilogarithm

DOI10.1016/S0893-9659(00)00180-4zbMath0974.65022OpenAlexW2004650231WikidataQ55842571 ScholiaQ55842571MaRDI QIDQ5938945

John P. Boyd

Publication date: 7 August 2001

Published in: Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0893-9659(00)00180-4

zbMATH Keywords

blending functionsdilogarithm functionglobal approximationlocal approximationssubtracting singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions (33F05) Higher logarithm functions (33B30)

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