Re: Whittaker Function

[Robert T. Short]

On 07/28/2012 08:12 AM, Markus28 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't find the whittaker function in Octave. It's in the symbolic math
> toolbox in Matlab and in the pracma package in R. Is it possible to use a R
> package in Octave? Or is there a whittaker function that I haven't found?
>
> Thank you,
> Markus
>
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Aren't Whittaker functions a special case of the confluent 
hypergeometric function?  If so, I posted a chf to this list several 
weeks ago that never got put in any libraries.  It would be easy to 
modify that to compute the Whittaker functions directly.

I only computed M(a,b,z), but I think it would be pretty easy to compute 
U as well.

If there is any real interest, I will dig this out of my library and repost.

Bob