toms291


toms291, a FORTRAN77 code which approximates the logarithm of the Gamma function.

The text of many ACM toms algorithms is available online through ACM: http://www.acm.org/pubs/calgo or NETLIB: http://www.netlib.org/toms/index.html.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

toms291 is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version.

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Reference:

  1. Malcolm Pike, David Hill,
    Algorithm 291: Logarithm of Gamma Function,
    Communications of the ACM,
    Volume 9, Number 9, September 1966, page 684.

Source Code:


Last revised on 08 November 2023.