Special Cases
Many of the special functions in mathematics are special cases of the confluent hypergeometric function or the hypergeometric function; see the corresponding articles for examples.
Some of the functions related to more complicated hypergeometric functions include:
- Dilogarithm:
- Hahn polynomials:
- Wilson polynomials:
Read more about this topic: Generalized Hypergeometric Function
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