Re: [Bug-gsl] Contributing incomplete Fermi-Dirac integrals

[Brian Gough]

At Sat, 3 Apr 2010 10:23:34 -0400,
Manoj Rajagopalan wrote:
>    I have been using GSL for a while now and I noticed it only provides an 
> implementation for the incomplete fermi-dirac integral of order 0 and not for 
> other orders.
> 
>    I am in touch with the author of a paper and FORTRAN code that adaptively 
> applies different types of series to calculate the incomplete Fermi-Dirac 
> integral for arbitrary orders and he has agreed to let my translation of the 
> FORTRAN code into C be part of GSL.
> 
>    I was wondering if the GSL "steering" committee would be interested in 
> this 
> contribution. Please let me know so if I may begin translation and what 
> coding standards I should adopt. I am familiar with large portions of GSL 
> code.

Thanks, that would be a useful addition, yes!

Our coding standards are in the design document doc/gsl-design.texi in
the git repository at https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=gsl

The fermi_dirac.c file hopefully contains a lot of code
that you can use, for the asymptotic expansions etc.

-- 
Brian Gough

GNU Scientific Library -
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/