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Question: Is there an error in Maple's BesselI(v,z) function?

Question:Is there an error in Maple's BesselI(v,z) function?

Angelo Melino 45 Maple 2019
integral bessel
December 13 2019
1

I compared the numerical value of an integral expression in Gradshteyn and Rhyzhik (8.431.5) for the BesselI(v,z) function to the BesselI(v,z) function in Maple 2019.2 and got different answers.  The GR expression is the difference of two integrals and it looks like Maple only evaluates the first integral, which is correct only if the order v is an integer.  Please see the attached.

BesselI.mw
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