Re: Euler's Gamma and Beta Functions
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- Subject: [mg41419] Re: Euler's Gamma and Beta Functions
- From: "Steven Shippee" <slshippee at attbi.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 05:05:05 -0400 (EDT)
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EulerGamma is Euler's constant and is equal to approximately 0.577216 based upon N[EulerGamma, 10]. According to the help files it uses the Brent-McMillan algorithm and has applications in integration and asymptotic expansions. Thanks in advance, Steven Shippee mailto:shippee at jcs.mil (360)-902-5817 "RazroRog" <RazroRog at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:b9tcm8$7ng$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Hello friends, > > Please forgive me - I know I will be asking questions that to you will > appear stupid. I do applogize for that. I'm working through Mr. Wolfram's > book - page by page. I love this Mathematica program and the book is very > well designed. I am just trying to learn. > > I need to know about Euler's Gamma and Beta functions. I understand the > attempt to generalize the factorial and how the Beta function arose but > could you show me a few examples from physics and/or engineering how these > functions are useful? I need to get a feel for them. > > Thank you very much, > > Raz > > >