Problems with PolyGamma
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- Subject: [mg22151] Problems with PolyGamma
- From: abdo at euroseek.com (Abds Roig)
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 02:35:16 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The Math Forum
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello. My name is Abdó Roig and I'm from Spain (sorry if my english isn't good). I've Mathematica 2.2 and I've found a problem with PolyGamma function. I was evaluating expressions like "PolyGamma[10^10]" and I found that the output of this expression is "- EulerGamma - 2Log2". This result is the same as the output of PolyGamma with integers near 10^10 or greater. Always is the same. I think it's wrong. If I use "N[PolyGamma[10^10]]" the output is -1.963......, the same. Then I tried to evaluate N[PolyGamma[10^10+1/10]], where 1/10 should not cause relevant changes on the result, but the output of this expression is 23.0259... (which seems to be a "correct" output). I think it's a bug of Mathematica. I would be very pleased if somebody could give me more information about it. Thanks. -- Abdo Roig abdo at euroseek.com