[sage-support] Re: incomplete gamma function: evaluation and taylor series

2014-05-03 Thread kcrisman
On Saturday, May 3, 2014 7:17:04 AM UTC-4, suvra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am new to Sage; trying to explore open source alternatives to > Mathematica. > > However, I seem to be having trouble with the incomplete gamma function. > Here are two difficulties. First, in trying to evaluate the inc

[sage-support] Re: incomplete gamma function: evaluation and taylor series

2014-05-03 Thread Peter Bruin
Correction: it is not exactly the same bug, but the two are certainly related. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegr

[sage-support] Re: incomplete gamma function: evaluation and taylor series

2014-05-03 Thread Peter Bruin
This is in fact a long-standing bug, reported here: http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/7099 (serious incomplete gamma function precision bugs) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emai

[sage-support] Re: incomplete gamma function: evaluation and taylor series

2014-05-03 Thread Peter Bruin
Hello, > However, I seem to be having trouble with the incomplete gamma function. > > Here are two difficulties. First, in trying to evaluate the incomplete > > gamma function at a point where the result should be very small, I just > get > > zero even if I increase the precision arbitrarily.

[sage-support] Re: incomplete gamma function: evaluation and taylor series

2014-05-03 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2014-05-03, suvrat.r...@gmail.com wrote: > I am new to Sage; trying to explore open source alternatives to > Mathematica. > > However, I seem to be having trouble with the incomplete gamma function. > Here are two difficulties. First, in trying to evaluate the incomplete > gamma function at