On Thursday 11 October 2001 08:50, you wrote:
> While playing around with some elliptic integrals, I needed to
> evaluate some gamma functions. The numerical gamma functions included
> with maxima seem to have about 5-6 digits of accuracy.
>
Have you considered to integrate pari in maxima? As far as I know they have a
lot of special functions (and other goodies) implemented with very fast and
accurate code and with any precision you could wish and it's free.
Jurgen