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Re: BesselJZeros problem/bug?

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  • Subject: [mg17019] Re: [mg16978] BesselJZeros problem/bug?
  • From: BobHanlon at aol.com
  • Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 02:11:43 -0400
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In a message dated 4/10/99 8:59:24 AM, tab at no.spam.thanks.net writes:

>I have a very simple notebook with just the following two cells:
>
><< NumericalMath`BesselZeros`
>BesselJZeros[0,{3,3}]
>
>Having run the first cell to load the add-on package, running the second
>cell is supposed to return a list containing the value of the 3rd zero
>of the Bessel function J0. However, for me it just never returns at all.
>Is this a bug? and is there a work-around?
>
>There are no problems finding the 1st and 2nd zeros of J0, nor any of
>the zeros of J1, J2, etc. I am running Mathematica 3.0.1.1x on a PC with
>Windows 95.
>

Works on a Mac

$Version

"Power Macintosh 3.0 (May 6, 1997)"

Needs["NumericalMath`BesselZeros`"]

BesselJZeros[0, 3]

{2.404825557695746, 5.520078110286311, 8.653727913113732}

BesselJZeros[0, {3, 3}]

{8.653727913113732}


Bob Hanlon


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