Re: Gamma Function - Garaphical Analysis

From: Roy McCammon (rbmccammon_at_mmm.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:15:09 -0500

D. Baruth wrote:
> Matthew Nobes <nobes@lepp.cornell.edu> wrote in message
> news:ylk656je19z.fsf@lnx145.lns.cornell.edu...
> : "D. Baruth" <nospam@nowhere.com> writes:
> :
> : > Eric Gisse <fsegg@!SPAMuaf.edu> wrote in message
> : > news:4dq7k05gbgehk52av236qu9errtomd6vk7@4ax.com...
> : > :
> : > : Also, I must ask why you think people would use your sourceless
> : > : executable in anything.
> : > :
> : >
> : > The freely available computer program contributes to the better
> : > understanding of the Gamma function in the entire real domain.
  < snip >

> : It doesn't really matter though, since plotting gamma(x) is pretty easy
> : with exisiting (free) tools.
>
> From your response, it looks as if you had not used my program. If
> you did, you would have noticed that the function(s) calculates extremely
> fast and precise. Applications on x86/7 hardware that need a small, precise
> and very fast library of transcendental functions will not find it in
> gnuplot.

as Matthew Nobes indicated, a stand alone evaluate and plot of the
Gamma function is not useful or interesting enough to pay for and
its not useful useful or interesting to take the risk of downloading
an executable that may contain a virus or do something bad to my computer.

Useful source code for Gamma and other functions may be found at
www.nr.com (home page of numerical recipes). 

-- 
local optimization seldom leads to global optimization
my e-mail address is: <my first name> <my last name> AT mmm DOT com

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