Skip to content

feat: add math/base/special/gamma-lanczos-sumf #6094

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Draft
wants to merge 4 commits into
base: develop
Choose a base branch
from
Draft
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
<!--

@license Apache-2.0

Copyright (c) 2025 The Stdlib Authors.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

-->

# Gamma Lanczos Sumf

> Calculate the Lanczos sum for the approximation of the [gamma function][gamma-function].

<section class="intro">

The [Lanczos approximation][lanczos-approximation] for the [gamma function][gamma-function] can be written in partial fraction form as follows:

<!-- <equation class="equation" label="eq:lanczos_approximation" align="center" raw="\Gamma ( n ) = \frac{(n+g-0.5)^{n-0.5}}{e^{n+g-0.5}} L_g(n)" alt="Lanczos approximation for gamma function."> -->

```math
\Gamma ( n ) = \frac{(n+g-0.5)^{n-0.5}}{e^{n+g-0.5}} L_g(n)
```

<!-- <div class="equation" align="center" data-raw-text="\Gamma ( n ) = \frac{(n+g-0.5)^{n-0.5}}{e^{n+g-0.5}} L_g(n)" data-equation="eq:lanczos_approximation">
<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/stdlib-js/stdlib@bb29798906e119fcb2af99e94b60407a270c9b32/lib/node_modules/@stdlib/math/base/special/gamma-lanczos-sum/docs/img/equation_lanczos_approximation.svg" alt="Lanczos approximation for gamma function.">
<br>
</div> -->

<!-- </equation> -->

where `g` is an [arbitrary constant][@stdlib/constants/float32/gamma-lanczos-g] and `L_g(n)` is the Lanczos sum.

</section>

<!-- /.intro -->

<section class="usage">

## Usage

```javascript
var gammaLanczosSumf = require( '@stdlib/math/base/special/gamma-lanczos-sumf' );
```

#### gammaLanczosSumf( x )

Calculates the Lanczos sum for the approximation of the [gamma function][gamma-function] for single-precision floating-point number.

```javascript
var v = gammaLanczosSumf( 4.0 );
// returns ~950.366

v = gammaLanczosSumf( -1.5 );
// returns ~1373366.245

v = gammaLanczosSumf( -0.5 );
// returns ~-699841.735

v = gammaLanczosSumf( 0.5 );
// returns ~96074.186

v = gammaLanczosSumf( 0.0 );
// returns Infinity

v = gammaLanczosSumf( NaN );
// returns NaN
```

</section>

<!-- /.usage -->

<section class="examples">

## Examples

<!-- eslint no-undef: "error" -->

```javascript
var linspace = require( '@stdlib/array/base/linspace' );
var gammaLanczosSumf = require( '@stdlib/math/base/special/gamma-lanczos-sumf' );

var x = linspace( -10.0, 10.0, 100 );

var i;
for ( i = 0; i < x.length; i++ ) {
console.log( 'x: %d, f(x): %d', x[ i ], gammaLanczosSumf( x[ i ] ) );
}
```

</section>

<!-- /.examples -->

<!-- C interface documentation. -->

* * *

<section class="c">

## C APIs

<!-- Section to include introductory text. Make sure to keep an empty line after the intro `section` element and another before the `/section` close. -->

<section class="intro">

</section>

<!-- /.intro -->

<!-- C usage documentation. -->

<section class="usage">

### Usage

```c
#include "stdlib/math/base/special/gamma_lanczos_sumf.h"
```

#### stdlib_base_gamma_lanczos_sumf( x )

Calculates the Lanczos sum for the approximation of the [gamma function][gamma-function] for single-precision floating-point number.

```c
float out = stdlib_base_gamma_lanczos_sumf( 4.0f );
// returns ~950.366f

out = stdlib_base_gamma_lanczos_sumf( -1.5f );
// returns ~1373366.245f
```

The function accepts the following arguments:

- **x**: `[in] float` input value.

```c
float stdlib_base_gamma_lanczos_sumf( const float x );
```

</section>

<!-- /.usage -->

<!-- C API usage notes. Make sure to keep an empty line after the `section` element and another before the `/section` close. -->

<section class="notes">

</section>

<!-- /.notes -->

<!-- C API usage examples. -->

<section class="examples">

### Examples

```c
#include "stdlib/math/base/special/gamma_lanczos_sumf.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main( void ) {
const float x[] = { 4.0f, -1.5f, -0.5f, 0.5f };

float y;
int i;
for ( i = 0; i < 4; i++ ) {
y = stdlib_base_gamma_lanczos_sumf( x[ i ] );
printf( "gamma_lanczos_sumf(%f) = %f\n", x[ i ], y );
}
}
```

</section>

<!-- /.examples -->

</section>

<!-- /.c -->

<!-- Section for related `stdlib` packages. Do not manually edit this section, as it is automatically populated. -->

<section class="related">

</section>

<!-- /.related -->

<!-- Section for all links. Make sure to keep an empty line after the `section` element and another before the `/section` close. -->

<section class="links">

[@stdlib/constants/float32/gamma-lanczos-g]: https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib/tree/develop/lib/node_modules/%40stdlib/constants/float32/gamma-lanczos-g

[gamma-function]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function

[lanczos-approximation]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanczos_approximation

</section>

<!-- /.links -->
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
/**
* @license Apache-2.0
*
* Copyright (c) 2025 The Stdlib Authors.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/

'use strict';

// MODULES //

var bench = require( '@stdlib/bench' );
var discreteUniform = require( '@stdlib/random/array/discrete-uniform' );
var isnanf = require( '@stdlib/math/base/assert/is-nanf' );
var pkg = require( './../package.json' ).name;
var gammaLanczosSumf = require( './../lib' );


// MAIN //

bench( pkg, function benchmark( b ) {
var x;
var y;
var i;

discreteUniform( 100, -50.0, 50.0 );

b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
y = gammaLanczosSumf( x[ i % x.length ] );
if ( isnanf( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnanf( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
/**
* @license Apache-2.0
*
* Copyright (c) 2025 The Stdlib Authors.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/

'use strict';

// MODULES //

var resolve = require( 'path' ).resolve;
var bench = require( '@stdlib/bench' );
var discreteUniform = require( '@stdlib/random/array/discrete-uniform' );
var isnanf = require( '@stdlib/math/base/assert/is-nanf' );
var tryRequire = require( '@stdlib/utils/try-require' );
var pkg = require( './../package.json' ).name;


// VARIABLES //

var gammaLanczosSumf = tryRequire( resolve( __dirname, './../lib/native.js' ) );
var opts = {
'skip': ( gammaLanczosSumf instanceof Error )
};


// MAIN //

bench( pkg+'::native', opts, function benchmark( b ) {
var x;
var y;
var i;

discreteUniform( 100, -50.0, 50.0 );

b.tic();
for ( i = 0; i < b.iterations; i++ ) {
y = gammaLanczosSumf( x[ i % x.length ] );
if ( isnanf( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
}
b.toc();
if ( isnanf( y ) ) {
b.fail( 'should not return NaN' );
}
b.pass( 'benchmark finished' );
b.end();
});
Loading
Loading