Re: Can't get the 3rd Bessel zero!
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- Subject: [mg19847] Re: Can't get the 3rd Bessel zero!
- From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kevin.mccann at jhuapl.edu>
- Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 01:20:32 -0400
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, USA
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John,
BesselJZeros[0,3]
{2.40483, 5.52008, 8.65373}
Nearly instantaneous.
Good luck,
Kevin
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Kevin J. McCann
Johns Hopkins University APL
I. Ioannou <iioannou at u.washington.edu> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I've been working with BesselJZeros recently, and the code I wrote shows
> the following peculiar behavior. While I can get all the Bessel zeros I
> need for most of the functions, I get mathematica to hang up at the 3rd
> Bessel zero of the 0th order Bessel.
>
> So, BesselJZeros[0,2] works, BesselJZeros[1,5] works, but
> BesselJZeros[0,3] doesn't work. (waited for a couple of hours before I
> aborted the calculation) Does anybody know what this behavior is due to?
> Is it a bug? Has it been seen before and by anybody else? Or is it
> particular to my machine?
>
> Thanks, John
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