Calculates the Bessel function of the first kind of order n for any real number x. Details

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x is any real number. |
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n is the nonnegative order (integer) of the Bessel function. |
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Jn(x) is the Bessel function of the first kind of order n, where both x and n are given. |
The Bessel function
is defined by

Generally the power series for
is not computationally useful. More useful are recurrence relations and rational approximations of
and
.
The recurrences are


The treatment of the cases x
n and x > n is completely different for the sake of accuracy.