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.\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
.\" Distributed under GPL
.\" Based on glibc infopages
.TH TGAMMA 3 2002-08-10 "GNU" "libc math functions"
.SH NAME
tgamma, tgammaf, tgammal \- true gamma function
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <math.h>
.sp
.BI "double tgamma(double " x );
.br
.BI "float tgammaf(float " x );
.br
.BI "long double tgammal(long double " x );
.sp
Link with \-lm.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The Gamma function is defined by
.sp
Gamma(x) = integral from 0 to infinity of t^(x-1) e^-t dt
.sp
It is defined for every real number except for nonpositive integers.
For nonnegative integral \fIm\fP one has
.sp
Gamma(m+1) = m!
.sp
and, more generally, for all \fIx\fP:
.sp
Gamma(x+1) = x * Gamma(x)
.sp
For \fIx\fP < 0.5 one can use
.sp
Gamma(x) * Gamma(1-x) = PI/sin(PI*x)
.PP
This function returns the value of the Gamma function for the
argument \fIx\fP. It had to be called "true gamma function"
since there is already a function
.I gamma()
that returns something else.
.SH ERRORS
In order to check for errors, set
.I errno
to zero and call
.I feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT)
before calling these functions. On return, if
.I errno
is non-zero or
.I fetestexcept(FE_INVALID | FE_DIVBYZERO | FE_OVERFLOW | FE_UNDERFLOW)
is non-zero, an error has occurred.
.LP
A range error occurs if x is too large.
A pole error occurs if x is zero.
A domain error (or a pole error) occurs if x is a negative integer.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
C99.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR gamma (3),
.BR lgamma (3)
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