Re: What is QGamma[q,z]
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- Subject: [mg95661] Re: What is QGamma[q,z]
- From: "Ted Ersek" <ersekt at md.metrocast.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:18:49 -0500 (EST)
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I had trouble with this because the only definitions I could find involved
things like
Subscript[(q;q), Infinity]
and I had no idea what that was.
I have since learned that this is called a q-series as defined at
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/q-Series.html
I often look (out of curiosity) at the definition of special functions in
Mathematica. In almost every case I can see that a function is the solution
to a certain differential equation, a definite integral, or something else I
am familiar with.
Even the very general AppellF1 function is defined as a double infinite
series, and I know what that is.
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Ted Ersek
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- What is QGamma[q,z]
- From: "Ted Ersek" <ersekt@md.metrocast.net>
- What is QGamma[q,z]