History of Local extrema of the Airy function of the first kind Ai

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2026-08-17 12:36 bmatschke how well the digits are known: heuristic (agreement-checked) (converted: generators/T57-airy-ai-extrema computes at 150 and 200 digits and keeps what agrees) current
2026-08-14 21:30 bmatschke how well the digits are known: heuristic (agreement-checked) (converted: generators/T57-airy-ai-extrema computes at 150 and 200 digits and keeps what agrees)
2026-08-14 18:26 bmatschke how well the digits are known: heuristic (agreement-checked) (converted: generators/T57-airy-ai-extrema 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 14:02 bmatschke recomputed with the numberdb package; digits agreement-checked at two precisions rather than assumed from a fifty per cent guard
2026-08-13 22:06 bmatschke how well the digits are known: heuristic (a fixed-precision value wrapped in an interval field) reviewed
2026-08-09 09:13 flattening entries rewritten as records with named parameters
2026-08-09 08:34 data-repository import the current state of the data repository
2021-05-01 23:03 bmatschke from the data repository, 09d8dcf9

What changed between 2026-08-14 21:30 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 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> local extremum of $\text{Ai}(x)$ 

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