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          |  | Volume 3, Issue 2, Article 20 |  |   
          |  |  |  |  |  |  | Monotonicity Properties of the Relative Error of a Padé Approximation for Mills' Ratio
 
 
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          |  |  | Authors: | Iosif Pinelis, |  |   
          |  |  | Keywords: | Mills' ratio,  Complementary error function,  Failure rate,  Padé approximation,  Continuous fractions,  Relative error,  L'Hospital's Rule,  Monotonicity |  |   
          |  |  | Date Received: | 29/01/01 |  |   
          |  |  | Date Accepted: | 16/11/01 |  |   
          |  |  | Subject Codes: | 26A48,26D10,26D15,33B20,40A15,41A17,41A2 |  |   
          |  |  | Editors: | Terry M. Mills, |  |   
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          |  |  | Abstract: |  Based on a ``monotonicity'' analogue of the l'Hospital Rule, monotonicity properties of the relative error are established for a Padé approximation of Mills' ratio.
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