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From: akcs.vttoth@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Viktor T. Toth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: COMB(X,Y) function on 48sx
Message-ID: <286d5a0f:3542.7comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 91 04:40:06 GMT
References: <3238343@cc.sfu.ca> <1991Jun26.133204.11796@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
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Well, here is something else for you guys. How about the analytic
continuation of the gamma function? While I never before saw COMB
extended to negative numbers, applying the gamma function to complex
numbers is fairly commonplace. In fact, in the few occasions when I
needed the gamma function myself, I had to program it from scratch. HP,
please, why did you not include a gamma function routine that is a.)
extended over the complex plane and b.) differentiable?