#7748: Make incomplete gamma function symbolic
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   Reporter:  kcrisman   |       Owner:  burcin    
       Type:  defect     |      Status:  new       
   Priority:  minor      |   Milestone:  sage-4.3.1
  Component:  symbolics  |    Keywords:            
Work_issues:             |      Author:            
   Upstream:  N/A        |    Reviewer:            
     Merged:             |  
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Comment(by kcrisman):

 Replying to [comment:1 burcin]:
 > After a quick look at the GiNaC sources, I don't think there is an
 implementation of the incomplete gamma function in there.
 >
 Okay.
 > Numerical evaluation of this can be done with the `gammainc()` function
 of mpmath.
 But will it give us symbolic evaluation ala gamma_inc(1,1)=1/e?  That
 would be best.

 > The conversion should just work, if the conversions dictionary argument
 of `BuiltinFunction.__init__` contains `maxima='gamma_incomplete'`.
 Yes, of course, but we still have to do it :)

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