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Re: Hypergeometric

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• Subject: [mg20128] Re: Hypergeometric
• From: "Atul Sharma" <atulksharma at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 03:04:55 -0400
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This is the Kummer function (Confluent Hypergeometric), or solution to the
Kummer differential equation. See Abramowitz and Stegan, Chapter 13 or, on
line,
http://www.treasure-troves.com/math/ConfluentHypergeometricFunction.html

A. Sharma
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Atul Sharma MD, FRCP(C)
Pediatric Nephrologist,
McGill University/Montreal Children's Hospital


Big Fish wrote in message <7suvt4$22v at smc.vnet.net>...
>I know what a hypergeometric function is, like the function
>hypergeometric1F1[a,b,x] in Mathematica. But what does
>Mathematica mean by
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>hypergeometric1F1^(1,0,0)[a,b,x]  ?
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