Am Dienstag, den 27.10.2009, 17:50 +0000 schrieb Leo Butler:
> Does Maxima have the ability to compute the value of a hypergeometric
> function numerically?
>
> I have a number of rather large expressions that should simplify to zero,
> and I can't coax Maxima to do much with them, so I was hoping to do the
> next best thing.
We have the new package hypergeometric, which perhaps does what you
need.
(%i4) load(hypergeometric);
(%i5) hypergeometric([2,4],[7.1b0],5.6b0 + %i);
(%o5) 8.245572273577162b-2-3.477183224767362b-1*%i
Dieter Kaiser