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► Oliveira e
Silva has calculated
for
, using the combinatorial methods of
Lagarias et al. (1985) and
Deléglise and Rivat (1996); see
Oliveira e Silva (2006).
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►That 1046-page tome proved to be an invaluable reference for the many scientists and engineers who use the special functions of applied mathematics in their day-to-day work, so much so that it became the most widely distributed and most highly cited NIST publication in the first
100 years of the institution’s existence.
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►The
online version, the
NIST Digital
Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF), presents the same technical information along with extensions and innovative interactive features consistent with the new medium.
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►As a condition of using the DLMF, you explicitly release NIST from any and all liabilities for any
damage of any type that may result from errors or omissions in the DLMF.
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Index of Selected Software Within the DLMF Chapters
Within each of the DLMF chapters themselves we will provide a list of
research software for the functions discussed in that chapter.
The purpose of these listings is to provide references to the research
literature on the engineering of software for special functions.
To qualify for listing, the development of the software must have been the subject
of a research paper published in the peer-reviewed literature. If such software
is available online for free download we will provide a link to the software.
In general, we will not index other software within DLMF chapters unless
the software is unique in some way, such as being the only known software
for computing a particular function.
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►Errors in the printed Handbook may already have been corrected in the
online version; please consult
Errata.
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►The direct correspondence between the reference numbers in the printed Handbook and the
permalinks used
online in the DLMF enables readers of either version to cite specific items and
their readers to easily look them up again — in either version!
►The following table outlines the correspondence between reference numbers as they appear in the Handbook, and the URL’s that find the same item
online.
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►A highly regarded expositor, Olver was author of more than
100 technical articles.
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►Most notably, he served as the Editor-in-Chief and Mathematics Editor of the
online NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions and its 966-page print companion, the
NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
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►Below we provide some notes and links to
online material which might be helpful in viewing our visualizations, but please see our
Disclaimer.
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►For access to
online high-precision numerical values of mathematical constants see
Sloane (2003).
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