# NAG CL Interfaces18cec (bessel_​i0_​scaled)

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## 1Purpose

s18cec returns a value of the scaled modified Bessel function ${e}^{-|x|}{I}_{0}\left(x\right)$.

## 2Specification

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 double s18cec (double x)
The function may be called by the names: s18cec, nag_specfun_bessel_i0_scaled or nag_bessel_i0_scaled.

## 3Description

s18cec evaluates an approximation to ${e}^{-|x|}{I}_{0}\left(x\right)$, where ${I}_{0}$ is a modified Bessel function of the first kind. The scaling factor ${e}^{-|x|}$ removes most of the variation in ${I}_{0}\left(x\right)$.
The function uses the same Chebyshev expansions as s18aec, which returns the unscaled value of ${I}_{0}\left(x\right)$.

## 4References

NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

## 5Arguments

1: $\mathbf{x}$double Input
On entry: the argument $x$ of the function.

None.

## 7Accuracy

Relative errors in the argument are attenuated when propagated into the function value. When the accuracy of the argument is essentially limited by the machine precision, the accuracy of the function value will be similarly limited by at most a small multiple of the machine precision.

## 8Parallelism and Performance

s18cec is not threaded in any implementation.

None.

## 10Example

This example reads values of the argument $x$ from a file, evaluates the function at each value of $x$ and prints the results.

### 10.1Program Text

Program Text (s18cece.c)

### 10.2Program Data

Program Data (s18cece.d)

### 10.3Program Results

Program Results (s18cece.r)