Table 1: Sample of energy levels (in Ryd), scaling parameters for pseudo-orbitals in the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac potential, and mean orbital radii (in AU) for various expansions for the Ni II target ion. Calculated energies are compared with experimental values from NIST (2000).

Levels		Energy  (Ryd)
		Exper.	E1	E2	E3	E4	E5	E6
		0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.1042	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000
		0.0797	0.0661	0.0101	0.0000	0.0485	0.0658	0.0287
		0.1237	0.1175	0.0626	0.0621	0.1087	0.1259	0.0759
		0.2126	0.2322	0.1795	0.1733	0.2128	0.2405	0.1956
		0.2184	0.2224	0.1665	0.1730	0.2186	0.2375	0.1955
		0.2610	0.2822	0.2305	0.2339	0.2723	0.3013	0.2422
		0.2909	0.3100	0.2559	0.2512	0.2939	0.3177	0.2714
		0.4698	0.4291	0.3700	0.3349	0.3963	0.3815	0.3905
		0.4734	0.4335	0.3773	0.3968	0.4448	0.4615	0.4096
		0.4870	0.4545	0.3992	0.4290	0.4750	0.4858	0.4265
		0.9046	1.2943	0.8933	0.7512	1.2673	0.7865	0.7932
		1.0826	...	...	...	0.9746	...	1.1217
		1.0961	...	...	...	...	2.1225	0.9881
		0.9523	...	...	...	...	...	0.9373
		0.9665	...	...	...	...	...	0.8922
		1.0711	...	...	...	...	...	1.0712
		1.1809	...	...	...	...	...	1.1741
			1.2756	1.1756	1.0756	1.2756	1.2756	1.2256
			3.193	4.229	5.034	3.193	3.193	3.723
			...	...	...	1.200	...	1.2000
			...	...	...	8.852	...	8.852
			...	...	...	...	1.5000	1.3500
			...	...	...	...	6.050	7.005
			...	...	...	...	...	0.9687
			...	...	...	...	...	6.302
			...	...	...	...	...	1.3000
			...	...	...	...	...	8.273
			...	...	...	...	...	1.1500
			...	...	...	...	...	6.176
			...	...	...	...	...	1.6000
			...	...	...	...	...	10.361