lgamma, lgammaf, lgammal

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Defined in header <math.h>
float lgammaf( float arg );
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double lgamma( double arg );
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long double lgammal( long double arg );
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Defined in header <tgmath.h>
#define lgamma( arg )
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1-3) Computes the natural logarithm of the absolute value of the gamma function of arg.
4) Type-generic macro: If arg has type long double, lgammal is called. Otherwise, if arg has integer type or the type double, lgamma is called. Otherwise, lgammaf is called.

Parameters

arg - floating point value

Return value

If no errors occur, the value of the logarithm of the gamma function of arg, that is log
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0
targ-1
e-t dt|
, is returned.

If a pole error occurs, +HUGE_VAL, +HUGE_VALF, or +HUGE_VALL is returned.

If a range error due to overflow occurs, HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, or HUGE_VALL is returned.

Error handling

Errors are reported as specified in math_errhandling.

If arg is zero or is an integer less than zero, a pole error may occur.

If the implementation supports IEEE floating-point arithmetic (IEC 60559),

  • If the argument is 1, +0 is returned
  • If the argument is 2, +0 is returned
  • If the argument is 0, + is returned and FE_DIVBYZERO is raised
  • If the argument is a negative integer, + is returned and FE_DIVBYZERO is raised
  • If the argument is , + is returned.
  • If the argument is NaN, NaN is returned

Notes

If arg is a natural number, lgamma(arg) is the logarithm of the factorial of arg-1.

The POSIX version of lgamma is not thread-safe: each execution of the function stores the sign of the gamma function of arg in the static external variable signgam. Some implementations provide lgamma_r, which takes a pointer to user-provided storage for singgam as the second parameter, and is thread-safe.

There is a non-standard function named gamma in various implementations, but its definition is inconsistent. For example, glibc and 4.2BSD version of gamma executes lgamma, but 4.4BSD version of gamma executes tgamma.

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <float.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fenv.h>
#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON
int main(void)
{
    printf("lgamma(10) =%f, log(9!)=%f\n", lgamma(10), log(2*3*4*5*6*7*8*9));
    double pi = acos(-1);
    printf("lgamma(0.5) =%f, log(sqrt(pi)) =%f\n", log(sqrt(pi)), lgamma(0.5));
    // special values
    printf("lgamma(1) =%f\n", lgamma(1));
    printf("lgamma(+Inf) =%f\n", lgamma(INFINITY));
    //error handling
    errno = 0; feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT);
    printf("lgamma(0) =%f\n", lgamma(0));
    if(errno == ERANGE) perror("    errno == ERANGE");
    if(fetestexcept(FE_DIVBYZERO)) puts("    FE_DIVBYZERO raised");
}

Possible output:

lgamma(10) = 12.801827, log(9!)=12.801827
lgamma(0.5) = 0.572365, log(sqrt(pi)) = 0.572365
lgamma(1) = 0.000000
lgamma(+Inf) = inf
lgamma(0) = inf
    errno == ERANGE: Numerical result out of range
    FE_DIVBYZERO raised

References

  • C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
  • 7.12.8.3 The lgamma functions (p: 250)
  • 7.25 Type-generic math <tgmath.h> (p: 373-375)
  • F.10.5.3 The lgamma functions (p: 525)
  • C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
  • 7.12.8.3 The lgamma functions (p: 231)
  • 7.22 Type-generic math <tgmath.h> (p: 335-337)
  • F.9.5.3 The lgamma functions (p: 462)

See also

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computes gamma function
(function)

External links

Weisstein, Eric W. "Log Gamma Function." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource.