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Gamma function

The gamma function, $ \Gamma(x)$, is defined as

$\displaystyle \Gamma(x) = \int_{u=0}^{\infty}u^{x - 1} e^{u} du.$ (30)

Once again libprob contains a suitable numeric evaluation.



David Flitney 2001-11-29