octave-interval 3.1.0-5 / usr / share / octave / packages / interval-3.1.0 / @infsupdec / erfc.m

## Copyright 2015-2016 Oliver Heimlich
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @documentencoding UTF-8
## @defmethod {@@infsupdec} erfc (@var{X})
##
## Compute the complementary error function @code{1 - erf (@var{X})}.
##
## @tex
## $$
##  {\rm erfc} (x) = {2 \over \sqrt{\pi}}\int_x^\infty \exp (-t^2) dt
## $$
## @end tex
## @ifnottex
## @group
## @verbatim
##                   ∞
##              2   /
## erfc (x) = ----- | exp (-t²) dt
##             √π   /
##                 x
## @end verbatim
## @end group
## @end ifnottex
##
## Accuracy: The result is a tight enclosure.
##
## @example
## @group
## erfc (infsupdec (1))
##   @result{} ans ⊂ [0.15729, 0.1573]_com
## @end group
## @end example
## @seealso{@@infsup/erf}
## @end defmethod

## Author: Oliver Heimlich
## Keywords: interval
## Created: 2015-02-28

function result = erfc (x)

  if (nargin ~= 1)
    print_usage ();
    return
  endif

  result = newdec (erfc (x.infsup));
  ## erfc is defined and continuous everywhere
  result.dec = min (result.dec, x.dec);

endfunction

%!# from the documentation string
%!assert (erfc (infsupdec (1)) == "[0x1.4226162FBDDD4p-3, 0x1.4226162FBDDD5p-3]");