§17.1 Special Notation
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►The main
functions treated in this chapter are the
basic hypergeometric (or
-
hypergeometric)
function
, the
bilateral basic hypergeometric (or
bilateral
-
hypergeometric)
function
, and the
-analogs of the Appell
functions
,
,
, and
.
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§17.18 Methods of Computation
►For computation of the
-exponential
function see
Gabutti and Allasia (2008).
►The two main methods for computing
basic hypergeometric functions are: (1) numerical summation of the defining series given in §§
17.4(i) and
17.4(ii); (2) modular transformations.
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