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<div class="section math_toolkit_special_sf_gamma_tgamma">
<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title">
<a name="math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma"></a><a class="link" href="tgamma.html" title="Gamma">Gamma</a>
</h4></div></div></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.h0"></a>
          <span><a name="math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.synopsis"></a></span><a class="link" href="tgamma.html#math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.synopsis">Synopsis</a>
        </h5>
<p>
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">special_functions</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">gamma</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
</pre>
<p>
        </p>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">{</span> <span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">{</span>

<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">tgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">z</span><span class="special">);</span>

<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">class</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">tgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">z</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">&amp;);</span>

<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">tgamma1pm1</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">dz</span><span class="special">);</span>

<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">class</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">tgamma1pm1</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">dz</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">&amp;);</span>

<span class="special">}}</span> <span class="comment">// namespaces</span>
</pre>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.h1"></a>
          <span><a name="math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.description"></a></span><a class="link" href="tgamma.html#math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.description">Description</a>
        </h5>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">tgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">z</span><span class="special">);</span>

<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">class</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">tgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">z</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">&amp;);</span>
</pre>
<p>
          Returns the "true gamma" (hence name tgamma) of value z:
        </p>
<p>
          <span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../../../equations/gamm1.png"></span>
        </p>
<p>
          <span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../../../graphs/tgamma.png" align="middle"></span>
        </p>
<p>
          The final <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a> argument is
          optional and can be used to control the behaviour of the function: how
          it handles errors, what level of precision to use etc. Refer to the <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">policy documentation for more details</a>.
        </p>
<p>
          There are effectively two versions of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function" target="_top">tgamma</a>
          function internally: a fully generic version that is slow, but reasonably
          accurate, and a much more efficient approximation that is used where the
          number of digits in the significand of T correspond to a certain <a class="link" href="../../backgrounders/lanczos.html" title="The Lanczos Approximation">Lanczos approximation</a>.
          In practice any built in floating point type you will encounter has an
          appropriate <a class="link" href="../../backgrounders/lanczos.html" title="The Lanczos Approximation">Lanczos
          approximation</a> defined for it. It is also possible, given enough
          machine time, to generate further <a class="link" href="../../backgrounders/lanczos.html" title="The Lanczos Approximation">Lanczos
          approximation</a>'s using the program libs/math/tools/lanczos_generator.cpp.
        </p>
<p>
          The return type of this function is computed using the <a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>result
          type calculation rules</em></span></a>: the result is <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">double</span></code>
          when T is an integer type, and T otherwise.
        </p>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">tgamma1pm1</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">dz</span><span class="special">);</span>

<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">class</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">tgamma1pm1</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">dz</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">&amp;);</span>
</pre>
<p>
          Returns <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">tgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">dz</span> <span class="special">+</span> <span class="number">1</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="special">-</span>
          <span class="number">1</span></code>. Internally the implementation
          does not make use of the addition and subtraction implied by the definition,
          leading to accurate results even for very small <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">dz</span></code>.
          However, the implementation is capped to either 35 digit accuracy, or to
          the precision of the <a class="link" href="../../backgrounders/lanczos.html" title="The Lanczos Approximation">Lanczos
          approximation</a> associated with type T, whichever is more accurate.
        </p>
<p>
          The return type of this function is computed using the <a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>result
          type calculation rules</em></span></a>: the result is <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">double</span></code>
          when T is an integer type, and T otherwise.
        </p>
<p>
          The final <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a> argument is
          optional and can be used to control the behaviour of the function: how
          it handles errors, what level of precision to use etc. Refer to the <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">policy documentation for more details</a>.
        </p>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.h2"></a>
          <span><a name="math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.accuracy"></a></span><a class="link" href="tgamma.html#math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.accuracy">Accuracy</a>
        </h5>
<p>
          The following table shows the peak errors (in units of epsilon) found on
          various platforms with various floating point types, along with comparisons
          to the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/" target="_top">GSL-1.9</a>,
          <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" target="_top">GNU C Lib</a>, <a href="http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90010/index.html" target="_top">HP-UX C Library</a>
          and <a href="http://www.netlib.org/cephes/" target="_top">Cephes</a> libraries.
          Unless otherwise specified any floating point type that is narrower than
          the one shown will have <a class="link" href="../../backgrounders/relative_error.html#zero_error">effectively zero error</a>.
        </p>
<div class="informaltable"><table class="table">
<colgroup>
<col>
<col>
<col>
<col>
<col>
<col>
</colgroup>
<thead><tr>
<th>
                  <p>
                    Significand Size
                  </p>
                </th>
<th>
                  <p>
                    Platform and Compiler
                  </p>
                </th>
<th>
                  <p>
                    Factorials and Half factorials
                  </p>
                </th>
<th>
                  <p>
                    Values Near Zero
                  </p>
                </th>
<th>
                  <p>
                    Values Near 1 or 2
                  </p>
                </th>
<th>
                  <p>
                    Values Near a Negative Pole
                  </p>
                </th>
</tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
                  <p>
                    53
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Win32 Visual C++ 8
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=1.9 Mean=0.7
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (GSL=3.9)
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://www.netlib.org/cephes/" target="_top">Cephes</a>=3.0)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=2.0 Mean=1.1
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (GSL=4.5)
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://www.netlib.org/cephes/" target="_top">Cephes</a>=1)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=2.0 Mean=1.1
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (GSL=7.9)
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://www.netlib.org/cephes/" target="_top">Cephes</a>=1.0)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=2.6 Mean=1.3
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (GSL=2.5)
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://www.netlib.org/cephes/" target="_top">Cephes</a>=2.7)
                  </p>
                </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
                  <p>
                    64
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Linux IA32 / GCC
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=300 Mean=49.5
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" target="_top">GNU C Lib</a>
                    Peak=395 Mean=89)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=3.0 Mean=1.4
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" target="_top">GNU C Lib</a>
                    Peak=11 Mean=3.3)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=5.0 Mean=1.8
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" target="_top">GNU C Lib</a>
                    Peak=0.92 Mean=0.2)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=157 Mean=65
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" target="_top">GNU C Lib</a>
                    Peak=205 Mean=108)
                  </p>
                </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
                  <p>
                    64
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Linux IA64 / GCC
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" target="_top">GNU C Lib</a>
                    Peak 2.8 Mean=0.9
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" target="_top">GNU C Lib</a>
                    Peak 0.7)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=4.8 Mean=1.5
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" target="_top">GNU C Lib</a>
                    Peak 0)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=4.8 Mean=1.5
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" target="_top">GNU C Lib</a>
                    Peak 0)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=5.0 Mean=1.7 (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/" target="_top">GNU
                    C Lib</a> Peak 0)
                  </p>
                </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
                  <p>
                    113
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    HPUX IA64, aCC A.06.06
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=2.5 Mean=1.1
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90010/index.html" target="_top">HP-UX
                    C Library</a> Peak 0)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=3.5 Mean=1.7
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90010/index.html" target="_top">HP-UX
                    C Library</a> Peak 0)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=3.5 Mean=1.6
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90010/index.html" target="_top">HP-UX
                    C Library</a> Peak 0)
                  </p>
                </td>
<td>
                  <p>
                    Peak=5.2 Mean=1.92
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    (<a href="http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90010/index.html" target="_top">HP-UX
                    C Library</a> Peak 0)
                  </p>
                </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.h3"></a>
          <span><a name="math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.testing"></a></span><a class="link" href="tgamma.html#math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.testing">Testing</a>
        </h5>
<p>
          The gamma is relatively easy to test: factorials and half-integer factorials
          can be calculated exactly by other means and compared with the gamma function.
          In addition, some accuracy tests in known tricky areas were computed at
          high precision using the generic version of this function.
        </p>
<p>
          The function <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">tgamma1pm1</span></code>
          is tested against values calculated very naively using the formula <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">tgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="number">1</span><span class="special">+</span><span class="identifier">dz</span><span class="special">)-</span><span class="number">1</span></code> with
          a lanczos approximation accurate to around 100 decimal digits.
        </p>
<h5>
<a name="math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.h4"></a>
          <span><a name="math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.implementation"></a></span><a class="link" href="tgamma.html#math_toolkit.special.sf_gamma.tgamma.implementation">Implementation</a>
        </h5>
<p>
          The generic version of the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">tgamma</span></code>
          function is implemented by combining the series and continued fraction
          representations for the incomplete gamma function:
        </p>
<p>
          <span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../../../equations/gamm2.png"></span>
        </p>
<p>
          where <span class="emphasis"><em>l</em></span> is an arbitrary integration limit: choosing
          <code class="literal">l = max(10, a)</code> seems to work fairly well.
        </p>
<p>
          For types of known precision the <a class="link" href="../../backgrounders/lanczos.html" title="The Lanczos Approximation">Lanczos
          approximation</a> is used, a traits class <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">lanczos</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">lanczos_traits</span></code>
          maps type T to an appropriate approximation.
        </p>
<p>
          For z in the range -20 &lt; z &lt; 1 then recursion is used to shift to
          z &gt; 1 via:
        </p>
<p>
          <span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../../../equations/gamm3.png"></span>
        </p>
<p>
          For very small z, this helps to preserve the identity:
        </p>
<p>
          <span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../../../equations/gamm4.png"></span>
        </p>
<p>
          For z &lt; -20 the reflection formula:
        </p>
<p>
          <span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../../../equations/gamm5.png"></span>
        </p>
<p>
          is used. Particular care has to be taken to evaluate the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">z</span> <span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">sin</span><span class="special">([</span><span class="identifier">pi</span><span class="special">][</span><span class="identifier">space</span><span class="special">]</span> <span class="special">*</span> <span class="identifier">z</span><span class="special">)</span></code>
          part: a special routine is used to reduce z prior to multiplying by &#960; &#160; to
          ensure that the result in is the range [0, &#960;/2]. Without this an excessive
          amount of error occurs in this region (which is hard enough already, as
          the rate of change near a negative pole is <span class="emphasis"><em>exceptionally</em></span>
          high).
        </p>
<p>
          Finally if the argument is a small integer then table lookup of the factorial
          is used.
        </p>
<p>
          The function <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">tgamma1pm1</span></code>
          is implemented using rational approximations <a class="link" href="../../backgrounders/implementation.html#math_toolkit.backgrounders.implementation.rational_approximations_used">devised
          by JM</a> in the region <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">-</span><span class="number">0.5</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span> <span class="identifier">dz</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span> <span class="number">2</span></code>. These are the same approximations (and
          internal routines) that are used for <a class="link" href="lgamma.html" title="Log Gamma">lgamma</a>,
          and so aren't detailed further here. The result of the approximation is
          <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">log</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">tgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">dz</span><span class="special">+</span><span class="number">1</span><span class="special">))</span></code> which can fed into <a class="link" href="../powers/expm1.html" title="expm1">expm1</a>
          to give the desired result. Outside the range <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">-</span><span class="number">0.5</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span> <span class="identifier">dz</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span> <span class="number">2</span></code> then the naive formula <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">tgamma1pm1</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">dz</span><span class="special">)</span>
          <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">tgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">dz</span><span class="special">+</span><span class="number">1</span><span class="special">)-</span><span class="number">1</span></code>
          can be used directly.
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