Computation of the Gamma, Digamma, and Trigamma Functions

DOI10.1137/0731050zbMath0803.40001OpenAlexW2035183366WikidataQ27564370 ScholiaQ27564370MaRDI QIDQ4305441

John L. Spouge

Publication date: 15 December 1994

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://zenodo.org/record/1236136

zbMATH Keywords

gamma functionEuler-Maclaurin summation formulacomputationStirling's approximationdigamma functionstrigamma functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Approximation in the complex plane (30E10) Approximation by rational functions (41A20) Approximation to limiting values (summation of series, etc.) (40A25) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to sequences, series, summability (40-04)

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