Special Function(s) for C#

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Introduction

This class contains physical constants and special functions not found in the System.Math class (C# port of the Cephes math library).

Constants

// Physical Constants in cgs Units
    
// Boltzman Constant. Units erg/deg(K) 
public const double BOLTZMAN = 1.3807e-16;
    
// Elementary Charge. Units statcoulomb 
public const double ECHARGE = 4.8032e-10;
    
// Electron Mass. Units g 
public const double EMASS = 9.1095e-28;
    
// Proton Mass. Units g 
public const double PMASS = 1.6726e-24;
    
// Gravitational Constant. Units dyne-cm^2/g^2
public const double GRAV = 6.6720e-08;
    
// Planck constant. Units erg-sec 
public const double PLANCK = 6.6262e-27;
    
// Speed of Light in a Vacuum. Units cm/sec 
public const double LIGHTSPEED = 2.9979e10;
    
// Stefan-Boltzman Constant. Units erg/cm^2-sec-deg^4 
public const double STEFANBOLTZ = 5.6703e-5;
    
// Avogadro Number. Units  1/mol 
public const double AVOGADRO = 6.0220e23;
    
// Gas Constant. Units erg/deg-mol 
public const double GASCONSTANT = 8.3144e07;
    
// Gravitational Acceleration at the Earths surface. Units cm/sec^2 
public const double GRAVACC = 980.67;
    
// Solar Mass. Units g 
public const double SOLARMASS = 1.99e33;
    
// Solar Radius. Units cm
public const double SOLARRADIUS = 6.96e10;
    
// Solar Luminosity. Units erg/sec
public const double SOLARLUM = 3.90e33;
    
// Solar Flux. Units erg/cm^2-sec
public const double SOLARFLUX = 6.41e10;
    
// Astronomical Unit (radius of the Earth's orbit). Units cm
public const double AU = 1.50e13;

Methods

/// Returns the base 10 logarithm of the specified number.
public static double log10(double x);

/// Returns the hyperbolic cosine of the specified number.
public static double cosh(double x);

/// Returns the hyperbolic sine of the specified number.
public static double sinh(double x);

/// Returns the hyperbolic tangent of the specified number.
public static double tanh(double x);

/// Returns the hyperbolic arc cosine of the specified number.
public static double acosh(double x);

/// Returns the hyperbolic arc sine of the specified number.
public static double asinh(double xx);

/// Returns the hyperbolic arc tangent of the specified number.
public static double atanh(double x);

/// Returns the Bessel function of order 0 of the specified number.
public static double j0(double x);

/// Returns the Bessel function of order 1 of the specified number.
public static double j1(double x);

/// Returns the Bessel function of order n of the specified number.
public static double jn(int n, double x);

/// Returns the Bessel function of the second kind,
/// of order 0 of the specified number.
public static double y0(double x);

/// Returns the Bessel function of the second kind,
/// of order 1 of the specified number.
public static double y1(double x);

/// Returns the Bessel function of the second kind,
/// of order n of the specified number.
public static double yn(int n, double x);

/// Returns the factorial of the specified number.
public static double fac(double x);

/// Returns the factorial of the specified number.
public static int fac(int j);

/// Returns the gamma function of the specified number.
public static double gamma(double x);

/// Return the gamma function computed by Stirling's formula.
private static double stirf(double x);

/// Returns the complemented incomplete gamma function.
public static double igamc(double a, double x);

/// Returns the incomplete gamma function.
public static double igam(double a, double x);

/// Returns the chi-square function (left hand tail).
public static double chisq(double df, double x);

/// Returns the chi-square function (right hand tail).
public static double chisqc(double df, double x);

/// Returns the sum of the first k terms of the Poisson distribution.
public static double poisson(int k, double x);

/// Returns the sum of the terms k+1 to infinity of the Poisson distribution.
public static double poissonc(int k, double x);

/// Returns the area under the Gaussian probability density function, 
///integrated from minus infinity to a.
public static double normal(double a);

/// Returns the complementary error function of the specified number.
public static double erfc(double a);

/// Returns the error function of the specified number.
public static double erf(double x);

/// Evaluates polynomial of degree N
private static double polevl(double x, double[] coef, int N);

/// Evaluates polynomial of degree N with assumption that coef[N] = 1.0
private static double p1evl(double x, double[] coef, int N);

/// Returns the natural logarithm of gamma function.
public static double lgamma(double x);

/// Returns the incomplete beta function evaluated from zero to xx.
public static double ibeta(double aa, double bb, double xx);

/// Returns the continued fraction expansion #1 for incomplete beta integral.
private static double incbcf(double a, double b, double x);

/// Returns the continued fraction expansion #2 for incomplete beta integral.
private static double incbd(double a, double b, double x);

/// Returns the power series for incomplete beta integral.
/// Use when b*x is small and x not too close to 1.
private static double pseries(double a, double b, double x);

Outroduction

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History

• 15^th September, 2005: Initial post