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<B>HYPERGEOMETRIC</B> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ <B>operator</B><P>
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The <em>Hypergeometric</em> operator provides simplifications for the
generalized hypergeometric functions.
The <em>Hypergeometric</em> operator is included in the package specfn2.
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syntax: </H3>
<em>hypergeometric</em>(<list of parameters>,<list of parameters>,
<argument>)
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examples: </H3>
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load specfn2;
hypergeometric ({1/2,1},{3/2},-x^2);
atan(x)
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x
hypergeometric ({},{},z);
z
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</TT></PRE><P>The special case where the length of the first list is equal to 2
and
the length of the second list is equal to 1 is often called
``the hypergeometric function'' (notated as 2F1(a1,a2,b;x)).
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