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bug #53876: gsl_sf_hyperg_2F1_renorm missing factor

Submitter:  Charles Hussong <chussong>
Submitted:  Fri 11 May 2018 02:08:22 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Accuracy problem Severity:  3 - Normal
Operating System:  Status:  None
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open
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Fri 11 May 2018 02:08:22 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

I apologize for the poor formatting; I hope this report is simple enough that it isn't too offensive.

I was surprised today to see gsl putting out a wrong answer for the renormalized hypergeometric function. The behavior is easily observed with the following call from one of my unit tests: gsl_sf_hyperg_2F1_renorm(1, 2, -3, 0.4). This returns 2572.02, but the correct answer is 65.8436.

Upon further inspection, the cause is pretty clear: the case in question begins on line 843 of specfunc/hyperg_2F1.c, where an appeal is made to Abramowitz and Stegun (15.1.2) [see http://people.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/page_556.htm]; this is perfectly valid, but the subsequent code omits the z^(m+1).

I would offer a patch for this directly, but I'm certain I'd do the error handling incorrectly; if not for this concern, simply changing the first argument on line 863 from "sg F.val" to "sg pow(x, -c+1) * F.val" would give the right answer.

Please let me know if there is any further assistance I can provide.

Best regards,
Charles

Charles Hussong <chussong>

 

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