From: J DOT Bischoff AT airbus DOT dasa DOT de
Message-Id: <9801260854.AA03526@axe.bre.da>
Subject: Re: math functions
To: jltaylor AT cyber-quest DOT com (Jeff Taylor)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 9:54:40 MET
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <34CA750A.7715@cyber-quest.com>; from "Jeff Taylor" at Jan 24, 98 6:11 pm
Precedence: bulk

Hello!

> 
> I just trying to do some heavier than usual math (for me).  I'm using
> the -lm switch on the link command line.  The gamma and pow functions
> are not giving me the answers I expect.
>   For pow(1.000336, -5) I get Infinity.  Is this outside the range of
> pow?
>   For gamma(5) I get 3.178, I'm expecting 24.  Are there two functions
> called gamma functions?
> 

Please note, that gamma(x) returns ln|Gamma(x)|, not Gamma(x) !!
So: exp(3.178) ~ 24.


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