History of Zeros of Bessel functions of the second kind $Y_\alpha$

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2026-08-17 12:36 bmatschke how well the digits are known: heuristic (agreement-checked) (converted: generators/T21-bessel-y-zeros computes at 150 and 200 digits and keeps what agrees) current
2026-08-14 21:29 bmatschke how well the digits are known: heuristic (agreement-checked) (converted: generators/T21-bessel-y-zeros computes at 150 and 200 digits and keeps what agrees)
2026-08-14 18:25 bmatschke how well the digits are known: heuristic (agreement-checked) (converted: generators/T21-bessel-y-zeros computes at 150 and 200 digits and keeps what agrees)
2026-08-14 18:20 bmatschke how well the digits are known: heuristic (a fixed-precision value wrapped in an interval field)
2026-08-14 14:16 bmatschke recomputed with the numberdb package; digits agreement-checked at two precisions rather than assumed from a fifty per cent guard reviewed
2026-08-13 22:04 bmatschke how well the digits are known: heuristic (a fixed-precision value wrapped in an interval field)
2026-08-09 09:10 flattening entries rewritten as records with named parameters
2026-08-09 08:33 data-repository import the current state of the data repository
2021-03-20 18:48 bmatschke from the data repository, a504adb9
2021-03-11 15:10 bmatschke from the data repository, 9749c9d1
2021-03-11 14:46 bmatschke from the data repository, bae1fd28

What changed between 2026-08-14 21:29 and 2026-08-17 12:36

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   rigour: heuristic (agreement-checked)   rigour details: 'Computed twice at different working precisions, keeping only the-    digits both computations support. That bounds the error from working precision-    and nothing else: two runs of the same method agree even when the method is wrong.'+    digits both computations support. Since 2026-08-17 each value is also *proven+    to bracket a zero*: the Bessel function is evaluated in ball arithmetic at both+    ends of the interval the written digits denote, and the two results have strictly+    opposite signs, so a zero lies between them by the intermediate value theorem.+    All entries pass. What this does not establish is the index -- that this is the+    nth zero rather than a neighbour -- which needs a count of the zeros below it,+    and arb''s counting is not exposed here.' Display properties:   number-header: $n$<sup>th</sup> root of $Y_\alpha$ 

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