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### Airy Bi Function

##### Synopsis

    #include <boost/math/special_functions/airy.hpp>

    namespace boost { namespace math {

     template <class T>
     calculated-result-type airy_bi(T x);

     template <class T, class Policy>
     calculated-result-type airy_bi(T x, const Policy&);

    }} // namespaces

##### Description

The function airy_bi calculates the Airy function Bi which is the second solution to the differential equation:

The final Policy argument is optional and can be used to control the behaviour of the function: how it handles errors, what level of precision to use etc. Refer to the policy documentation for more details.

The following graph illustrates how this function changes as x changes: for negative x the function is cyclic, while for positive x the value tends to infinity:

##### Accuracy

This function is implemented entirely in terms of the Bessel functions cyl_bessel_i and cyl_bessel_j - refer to those functions for detailed accuracy information.

In general though, the relative error is low (less than 100 ε) for x > 0 while only the absolute error is low for x < 0 as the following error plot illustrate:

##### Testing

Since this function is implemented in terms of other special functions, there are only a few basic sanity checks, using test values from functions.wolfram.com.

##### Implementation

This function is implemented in terms of the Bessel functions using the relations: