Function programmed in Fortran 95 to compute values of the Gamma function from mathematics is not producing the correct values.
I am trying to implement a recursive function in Fortran 95 that computes values of the Gamma function using the Lanczos approximation (yes I know that there is an intrinsic function for this in the 2003 standard and later). I've followed the standard formula very closely so I'm not certain what is wrong. Correct values for the Gamma function are crucial for some other numerical computations I am doing involving the numerical computation of the Jacobi polynomials by means of a recursion relation.
program testGam
implicit none
integer, parameter :: dp = selected_real_kind(15,307)
real(dp), parameter :: pi = 3.14159265358979324
real(dp), dimension(10) :: xGam, Gam
integer :: n
xGam = (/ -3.5, -2.5, -1.5, -0.5, 0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5 /)
do n = 1,10
Gam(n) = GammaFun(xGam(n))
end do
do n = 1,10
write(*,*) xGam(n), Gam(n)
end do
contains
recursive function GammaFun(x) result(G)
real(dp), intent(in) :: x
real(dp) :: G
real(dp), dimension(0:8), parameter :: q = &
(/ 0.99999999999980993, 676.5203681218851, -1259.1392167224028, &
771.32342877765313, -176.61502916214059, 12.507343278686905, &
-0.13857109526572012, 9.9843695780195716e-6, 1.5056327351493116e-7 /)
real(dp) :: t, w, xx
integer :: n
xx = x
if ( xx < 0.5_dp ) then
G = pi / ( sin(pi*xx)*GammaFun(1.0_dp - xx) )
else
xx = xx - 1.0_dp
t = q(0)
do n = 1,9
t = t + q(n) / (xx + real(n, dp))
end do
w = xx + 7.5_dp
G = sqrt(2.0_dp*pi)*(w**(xx + 0.5_dp))*exp(-w)*t
end if
end function GammaFun
end program testGam
Whereas this code should be producing correct values for the Gamma function over the whole real line, it seems only to produce a constant value close to 122 regardless of the input. I suspect that there is some weird floating point arithmetic issue that I am not seeing.
There are two obvious issues with your code
do n = 1,9 t = t + q(n) / (xx + real(n, dp)) end do
Making what I believe are the appropriate fixes to these your program compiles, links and runs correctly, at least as far as I can see. See below:
ian@eris:~/work/stackoverflow$ cat g.f90
program testGam
implicit none
integer, parameter :: dp = selected_real_kind(15,307)
real(dp), parameter :: pi = 3.14159265358979324_dp
real(dp), dimension(10) :: xGam, Gam
integer :: n
xGam = (/ -3.5_dp, -2.5_dp, -1.5_dp, -0.5_dp, 0.5_dp, 1.5_dp, 2.5_dp, 3.5_dp, 4.5_dp, 5.5_dp /)
do n = 1,10
Gam(n) = GammaFun(xGam(n))
end do
do n = 1,10
write(*,*) xGam(n), Gam(n), gamma( xGam( n ) ), Abs( Gam( n ) - gamma( xGam( n ) ) )
end do
contains
recursive function GammaFun(x) result(G)
real(dp), intent(in) :: x
real(dp) :: G
real(dp), dimension(0:8), parameter :: q = &
(/ 0.99999999999980993_dp, 676.5203681218851_dp, -1259.1392167224028_dp, &
771.32342877765313_dp, -176.61502916214059_dp, 12.507343278686905_dp, &
-0.13857109526572012_dp, 9.9843695780195716e-6_dp, 1.5056327351493116e-7_dp /)
real(dp) :: t, w, xx
integer :: n
xx = x
if ( xx < 0.5_dp ) then
G = pi / ( sin(pi*xx)*GammaFun(1.0_dp - xx) )
else
xx = xx - 1.0_dp
t = q(0)
do n = 1,8
t = t + q(n) / (xx + real(n, dp))
end do
w = xx + 7.5_dp
G = sqrt(2.0_dp*pi)*(w**(xx + 0.5_dp))*exp(-w)*t
end if
end function GammaFun
end program testGam
ian@eris:~/work/stackoverflow$ gfortran -O -std=f2008 -Wall -Wextra -fcheck=all g.f90
ian@eris:~/work/stackoverflow$ ./a.out
-3.5000000000000000 0.27008820585226917 0.27008820585226906 1.1102230246251565E-016
-2.5000000000000000 -0.94530872048294168 -0.94530872048294179 1.1102230246251565E-016
-1.5000000000000000 2.3632718012073521 2.3632718012073548 2.6645352591003757E-015
-0.50000000000000000 -3.5449077018110295 -3.5449077018110318 2.2204460492503131E-015
0.50000000000000000 1.7724538509055159 1.7724538509055161 2.2204460492503131E-016
1.5000000000000000 0.88622692545275861 0.88622692545275805 5.5511151231257827E-016
2.5000000000000000 1.3293403881791384 1.3293403881791370 1.3322676295501878E-015
3.5000000000000000 3.3233509704478430 3.3233509704478426 4.4408920985006262E-016
4.5000000000000000 11.631728396567446 11.631728396567450 3.5527136788005009E-015
5.5000000000000000 52.342777784553583 52.342777784553519 6.3948846218409017E-014
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