From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7508 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2007 10:42:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 7500 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Apr 2007 10:42:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from network-theory.com (HELO mail.network-theory.co.uk) (66.199.228.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:42:54 +0100 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:42:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87ps6ke7yt.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> From: Brian Gough To: Ed Smith-Rowland <3dw4rd@verizon.net> Cc: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Possible small bug in Laguerre polynomial. In-Reply-To: <45F444E4.3070203@verizon.net> References: <45F444E4.3070203@verizon.net> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/21.3 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Message-Mac: 60285c98657580e157f6a62f458b6036 Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q2/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 At Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:05:24 -0400, Ed Smith-Rowland wrote: > I believe the error comes from switching to a hypergeometric expression > rather than sticking with recursion at alpha=0. > I have found that staying with recursion works just fine at alpha = 0 > for n = 50 or 100. > > The special function testsuite is clean on all platforms when I make the > one-character change. Thanks, I have fixed this in CVS now. -- Brian Gough