Errata for Abramowitz and Stegun - Gamma function

MATHEMATICS OF COMPUTATION Volume 00, Number 0, Pages 000{000 S 0025-5718(XX)0000-0

TABLE ERRATA | ABRAMOWITZ & STEGUN JAMES H. DAVENPORT Abstract.

We detail two errors in [1, p. 256] with respect to the

function.

Equation 6.1.23 (second part) should have the condition (x not real negative). Equation 6.1.24 should be interpreted as a congruence modulo

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References [1] Abramowitz,M. & Stegun,I., Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables . US Government Printing OÆce, 1964. 10th Printing December 1972. Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, England

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2000 Mathematics Subject Classi cation. Primary 33-00, 33B15. The author was partially supported by the European Union's OpenMath Thematic Network | contract IST-2000-28719.

c 1997 American Mathematical Society

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