On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, dlakelan <dlakelan at street-artists.org>wrote:
> On 12/30/2011 12:13 AM, Raymond Toy wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Edwin Woollett <woollett at charter.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >> attempted evaluation of bfloat of an expression
> >> involving gamma_incomplete's leads to an error message:
> ...
>
> > Could you file a bug report on this? I know about some of these issues
> and
> > am working on them (slowly). The basic parts work, but the corner cases
> > need more work (especically since my approach fails in some cases where
> the
> > original gave correct answers).
>
> I'm sure you've seen this since the simplest google search would bring
> it up, but it seemed interesting so if you haven't seen it you might
> want to take a look:
>
> http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/71/1/001/pdf/epl_71_1_001.pdf
>
>
Thanks for the tip. I had not seen this; I was working from the continued
fraction and series representations of the incomplete gamma function.
This seems interesting, but it's not immediately clear if "all a and x"
means all real a and x or all complex a and x.
Ray