Hi Luc, > > Hi Sébastien, > >> as rightly pointed out by Christian, the bug reported in MATH-718 is >> in fact a result of the current implementation of the incomplete beta >> function I(x, a, b), which is inaccurate when a and/or b are >> large-ish. I think this is a very interesting issue, but also one >> which will not be solved in one or two days' work. I've skimmed >> through slatec [1], GSL, Boost [2] as well as you-know-who. Neither >> uses the same method to compute this function. I would like to review >> in detail those methods before coming up with a fix for this issue. So >> I propose that we mark MATH-718 as won't fix, and open a new JIRA >> issue to affect 3.1 or 4.0. Working on special functions (which is a >> weak side of CM anyway) is something I would be very much interested >> in. > > Rather than won't fix, I would prefer simply postponing the issue to 3.1. > > Luc > Yes, that's probably better. Should I open a new ticket specifically dedicated to the incomplete Beta function, or should we keep everything in the same place? Sébastien
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