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Re: [Help-gsl] Another reference manual comment


From: Brian Gough
Subject: Re: [Help-gsl] Another reference manual comment
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:53:21 +0100
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At Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:30:18 +0200,
Carsten Fortmann wrote:
> 
> The reference manual page for complete Fermi-Dirac Integrals F_j(x)
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Complete-Fermi_002dDirac-Integrals.html
> 
> Should read 
> 
>  F_j(x)   := (1/\Gamma(j+1)) \int_0^\infty dt (t^j / (\exp(t-x) + 1))
> 
>  (omit "r")

Thanks for the bug report, I will correct that.

> Maybe an additional comment could be placed after
> this line, something like:
> 
> "Attention, this definition differs from definitions often found
> in theoretical physics textbooks, where the prefactor
> 1/\Gamma(j+1) is omitted."

Ok.  I will add a note. 

-- 
Brian Gough

Network Theory Ltd,
Publishing Free Software Manuals --- http://www.network-theory.co.uk/




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