In the many manuals that exist for Maxima the function CF is the only
use of continued fractions that Maxima intrinsically supports. This
function operator does not seem to allow creating continued fractions
only to interpret numbers as continued fractions.
I want to compute the incomplete gamma function, gamma(x,z) via a
continued fraction. Is there an easy or at least straightforward way in
Maxima to do this? The sequences for numerators and denominators are
simple:
num = (1,(a-1)*1,(a-2)*2,...)
den = (x+1-a, x+3-a, x+5-a,...)
Thank you,
Yigal Weinstein