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package org.apache.commons.numbers.gamma;

/**
 * Inverse of the complementary error function.
 * 
 * This implementation is described in the paper:
 * Approximating
 * the erfinv function by Mike Giles, Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance,
 * which was published in GPU Computing Gems, volume 2, 2010.
 * The source code is available here.
 * 
 */
public class InverseErfc {
    /**
     * Returns the inverse complementary error function.
     *
     * @param x Value.
     * @return t such that {@code x =} {@link Erfc#value(double) Erfc.value(t)}.
     */
    public static double value(double x) {
        return InverseErf.value(1 - x);
    }
}