Subject: entering hypergeometric functions in maxima
From: Dlubek Michal
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:16:30 +0100
>AFAIK, Maxima doesn't know how to evaluate hypergeometric functions
>except in very special cases, where the hypergeometric reduces to some
>other function. %f is the hypergeometric function, and hgfred is the
>function that tries to reduce a hypergeometric function to a "simpler"
>function.
>However, Bill Gosper sent some code to evaluate some hypergeometrics,
>and some of it works, but not all. It's in the mailing list archives
>somewhere.
>Ray
Hello Ray,
Thank you for your answer.
Would it mean that the only two functions in standard Maxima packages
dealing with hypergeometrics are %f and hgfred and the first one could
be used only to feed the other? I was kind of hoping that there could be
more for this (possibly not documented) since I could not find hgfred in
the manual.
Anyway, thank you for clarification.
regards,
Michal
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