Subject: hyp.lisp vs Bessel functions and other questions.
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:00:40 -0800
I put the first bunch of pages of Yannis' paper in
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/yannis
as tif files.
RJF
Raymond Toy wrote:
>>>>>>"Barton" == Barton Willis <willisb@unk.edu> writes:
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> Barton> I vote to never convert 1F1 functions to the Whittaker M
> Barton> functions. My reference books (A & S and G & R) have more
> Barton> formulae (special cases, recursion, expansions, etc) for
> Barton> the 1F1 function than it has for the Whittaker functions.
>
>That is also my thinking. But perhaps we can leave a flag around to
>enable getting Whittaker M functions.
>
>And if you're working on Kummer M, then I can have it convert 1F1 to
>kummer_m. Or maybe we should follow Mathematica and use
>hypergeometric_1f1 here. (It currently does %f[a,b](x).) Or
>something else.
>
>Ray
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