#14896: Implement symbolic confluent hypergeometric functions
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       Reporter:  eviatarbach        |        Owner:  burcin
           Type:  enhancement        |       Status:  needs_work
       Priority:  major              |    Milestone:  sage-6.3
      Component:  symbolics          |   Resolution:
       Keywords:  hypergeometric     |    Merged in:
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Report Upstream:  N/A                |  Work issues:
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  u/rws/ticket/14896                 |  b87c57b409b7d9df972ec88b7f0500e3ce51c89e
   Dependencies:  #2516              |     Stopgaps:
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Comment (by kcrisman):

 > > {{{
 > > (b - 1)*x^(-b + 1)*e^x*gamma_greek(b - 1, x)
 > > }}}
 > > Of course that should be `gamma`.
 > I'm not so sure: according to the maxima documentation:
 >
 >  - gamma - gamma function (complete)
 >  - gamma_greek - lower incomplete gamma function
 >  - gamma_incomplete - upper incomplete gamma function
 Good catch.
 > in sage, gamma(a,z) is documented to be the upper gamma function, which
 gets translated appropriately. We might not have a lower gamma function
 yet.
 Maybe we can make it by gamma - upper incomplete?

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