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+## Copyright (C) 2006 Sylvain Pelissier <sylvain.pelissier@gmail.com>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{y} =} expint_Ei (@var{x})
+## Compute the exponential integral,
+## @verbatim
+## infinity
+## /
+## expint_Ei(x) = - | exp(t)/t dt
+## /
+## -x
+## @end verbatim
+## @seealso{expint, expint_E1}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function y = expint_Ei(x)
+ if (nargin != 1)
+ print_usage;
+ endif
+ y = zeros(size(x));
+ F = @(x) exp(-x)./x;
+ s = prod(size(x));
+ for t = 1:s;
+ if(x(t)<0 && imag(x(t)) == 0)
+ y(t) = -quad(F,-x(t),Inf);
+ else
+ if(abs(x(t)) > 2 && imag(x(t)) == 0)
+ y(t) = expint_Ei(2) - quad(F,-x(t),-2);
+ else
+ if(abs(x(t)) >= 10)
+ if(imag(x(t)) <= 0)
+ a1 = 4.03640;
+ a2 = 1.15198;
+ b1 = 5.03637;
+ b2 = 4.19160;
+ y(t) = -(x(t).^2 - a1.*x(t) + a2)./((x(t).^2-b1.*x(t)+b2).*(-x(t)).*exp(-x(t)))-i.*pi;
+ else
+ y(t) = conj(expint_Ei(conj(x(t))));
+ endif;
+ ## Serie Expansion
+ else
+ for k = 1:100;
+ y(t) = y(t) + x(t).^k./(k.*factorial(k));
+ endfor
+ y(t) = 0.577215664901532860606512090082402431 + log(x(t)) + y(t);
+ endif
+ endif
+ endif
+ endfor
+endfunction