*DECK ALNREL FUNCTION ALNREL (X) C***BEGIN PROLOGUE ALNREL C***PURPOSE Evaluate ln(1+X) accurate in the sense of relative error. C***LIBRARY SLATEC (FNLIB) C***CATEGORY C4B C***TYPE SINGLE PRECISION (ALNREL-S, DLNREL-D, CLNREL-C) C***KEYWORDS ELEMENTARY FUNCTIONS, FNLIB, LOGARITHM C***AUTHOR Fullerton, W., (LANL) C***DESCRIPTION C C ALNREL(X) evaluates ln(1+X) accurately in the sense of relative C error when X is very small. This routine must be used to C maintain relative error accuracy whenever X is small and C accurately known. C C Series for ALNR on the interval -3.75000D-01 to 3.75000D-01 C with weighted error 1.93E-17 C log weighted error 16.72 C significant figures required 16.44 C decimal places required 17.40 C C***REFERENCES (NONE) C***ROUTINES CALLED CSEVL, INITS, R1MACH, XERMSG C***REVISION HISTORY (YYMMDD) C 770401 DATE WRITTEN C 890531 Changed all specific intrinsics to generic. (WRB) C 890531 REVISION DATE from Version 3.2 C 891214 Prologue converted to Version 4.0 format. (BAB) C 900315 CALLs to XERROR changed to CALLs to XERMSG. (THJ) C 900326 Removed duplicate information from DESCRIPTION section. C (WRB) C***END PROLOGUE ALNREL