>>>>> "Jurgen" == rgen Tischer <J> writes:
Jurgen> 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.
>>
Jurgen> Have you considered to integrate pari in maxima? As far as I know they have a
Jurgen> lot of special functions (and other goodies) implemented with very fast and
Jurgen> accurate code and with any precision you could wish and it's free.
Jurgen> Jurgen
Good idea, and it's GPL too so the license is compatible with maxima.
However, it looks like it's in C. Doing a foreign function interface
to it may not be easy. And certainly not portable.
But this would be very nice to have....
Ray