chapter iv. runge example, with cubic hermite interpolation
c  from  * a practical guide to splines *  by c. de boor    
      integer i,istep,j,n,nm1
      real aloger,algerp,c(4,20),decay,divdf1,divdf3,dtau,dx,errmax,g,h
     *    ,pnatx,step,tau(20)
      data step, istep /20., 20/
      g(x) = 1./(1.+(5.*x)**2)
      print 600
  600 format(28h  n   max.error   decay exp.//)
      decay = 0.
      do 40 n=2,20,2
c        choose interpolation points  tau(1), ..., tau(n) , equally
c        spaced in (-1,1), and set  c(1,i) = g(tau(i)), c(2,i) =
c        gprime(tau(i)) = -50.*tau(i)*g(tau(i))**2, i=1,...,n.
         nm1 = n-1
         h = 2./float(nm1)
         do 10 i=1,n
            tau(i) = float(i-1)*h - 1.
            c(1,i) = g(tau(i))
   10       c(2,i) = -50.*tau(i)*c(1,i)**2
c        calculate the coefficients of the polynomial pieces
c
         do 20 i=1,nm1
            dtau = tau(i+1) - tau(i)
            divdf1 = (c(1,i+1) - c(1,i))/dtau
            divdf3 = c(2,i) + c(2,i+1) - 2.*divdf1
            c(3,i) = (divdf1 - c(2,i) - divdf3)/dtau
   20       c(4,i) = (divdf3/dtau)/dtau
c
c        estimate max.interpolation error on (-1,1).
         errmax = 0.
         do 30 i=2,n
            dx = (tau(i)-tau(i-1))/step
            do 30 j=1,istep
               h = float(j)*dx
c              evaluate (i-1)st cubic piece
c
               pnatx = c(1,i-1)+h*(c(2,i-1)+h*(c(3,i-1)+h*c(4,i-1)))
c
   30          errmax = amax1(errmax,abs(g(tau(i-1)+h)-pnatx))
         aloger = alog(errmax)
         if (n .gt. 2)  decay =
     *       (aloger - algerp)/alog(float(n)/float(n-2))
         algerp = aloger
   40    print 640,n,errmax,decay
  640 format(i3,e12.4,f11.2)
                                        stop
      end