hypergeom function, no output
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Sabhrant
on 14 Apr 2024 at 23:44
I am trying to compute the sum "hypergeom([0.5 1 0.4 0.9],[0.95,1.45,1.4],-1)" in Matlab R2022a, but the function is not returning a value even after 5 minutes of waiting. On Mathematica, running the code "HypergeometricPFQ[{0.5 , 1, 0.4, 0.9}, {0.95, 1.45, 1.4}, -1]" immeditely returns as 0.928766. I am unable to understand why this sum is not getting computed. Is this a bug in the hypergeom function?
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Torsten
on 14 Apr 2024 at 23:53
Moved: Torsten
on 14 Apr 2024 at 23:56
The hypergeometric function has convergence criteria:
- Converges if p ≤ q and |z| < ∞.
- Converges if p = q + 1 and |z| < 1. For |z| >= 1, the series diverges, and is defined by analytic continuation.
- Diverges if p > q + 1 and z ≠ 0. Here, the series is defined by an asymptotic expansion of pFq(a;b;z) around z = 0. The branch cut is the positive real axis.
And the analytic continuation takes quite long ...
format long
hypergeom([0.5 1 0.4 0.9],[0.95,1.45,1.4],-0.999999999999)
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