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Re: Hypergeometric

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• Subject: [mg20122] Re: Hypergeometric
• From: "Kevin J. McCann" <kevin.mccann at jhuapl.edu>
• Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 03:04:52 -0400
• Organization: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, USA
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Hypergeometric1F1^(1,0,0)[a,b,x]

means the derivative with respect to the first argument; so

D[Hypergeometric1F1[a,b,x],a]  will produce this result.  This is the
standard notation for derivatives of multivariate functions.  The second
derivative WRT b would produce "(0,2,0)", and so on.

Kevin
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Kevin J. McCann
Johns Hopkins University APL

Big Fish <whatafish at my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> 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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