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| Rising Factorial</a> |
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| <pre class="programlisting"><span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">special_functions</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">factorials</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">></span> |
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| <pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">{</span> <span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">{</span> |
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| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> |
| <a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">rising_factorial</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">x</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="identifier">i</span><span class="special">);</span> |
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| <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">class</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">></span> |
| <a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">rising_factorial</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">x</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="identifier">i</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a><span class="special">&);</span> |
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| <span class="special">}}</span> <span class="comment">// namespaces |
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| Returns the rising factorial of <span class="emphasis"><em>x</em></span> and <span class="emphasis"><em>i</em></span>: |
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| rising_factorial(x, i) = Γ(x + i) / Γ(x); |
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| or |
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| rising_factorial(x, i) = x(x+1)(x+2)(x+3)...(x+i-1) |
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| Note that both <span class="emphasis"><em>x</em></span> and <span class="emphasis"><em>i</em></span> can be |
| negative as well as positive. |
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| The final <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">Policy</a> argument |
| is optional and can be used to control the behaviour of the function: |
| how it handles errors, what level of precision to use etc. Refer to the |
| <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Policies">policy documentation for more details</a>. |
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| May return the result of <a class="link" href="../../main_overview/error_handling.html#overflow_error">overflow_error</a> |
| if the result is too large to represent in type T. |
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| The return type of these functions is computed using the <a class="link" href="../../main_overview/result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>result |
| type calculation rules</em></span></a>: the type of the result is <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">double</span></code> if T is an integer type, otherwise |
| the type of the result is T. |
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| <a name="math_toolkit.special.factorials.sf_rising_factorial.accuracy"></a><h5> |
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| <a class="link" href="sf_rising_factorial.html#math_toolkit.special.factorials.sf_rising_factorial.accuracy">Accuracy</a> |
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| The accuracy will be the same as the <a class="link" href="../sf_gamma/gamma_ratios.html" title="Ratios of Gamma Functions">tgamma_delta_ratio</a> |
| function. |
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| <a name="math_toolkit.special.factorials.sf_rising_factorial.testing"></a><h5> |
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| <a class="link" href="sf_rising_factorial.html#math_toolkit.special.factorials.sf_rising_factorial.testing">Testing</a> |
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| The spot tests for the rising factorials use data generated by functions.wolfram.com. |
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| <a name="math_toolkit.special.factorials.sf_rising_factorial.implementation"></a><h5> |
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| <a class="link" href="sf_rising_factorial.html#math_toolkit.special.factorials.sf_rising_factorial.implementation">Implementation</a> |
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| Rising and falling factorials are implemented as ratios of gamma functions |
| using <a class="link" href="../sf_gamma/gamma_ratios.html" title="Ratios of Gamma Functions">tgamma_delta_ratio</a>. |
| Optimisations for small integer arguments are handled internally by that |
| function. |
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