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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.
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Brian Gough
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