Date: 2016-12-09 06:45 From: James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> I just posted to MathOverflow (tag: "terminology") to see if anyone can provide info on the radiculus function. Maybe G.H. Hardy collaborated with Alfred Haar on a two-author paper about the radiculus function, with Hardy getting priority in the author-list despite Haar being alphabetically prior? :-) Jim Propp On Friday, December 9, 2016, Dan Asimov <asimov@msri.org> wrote:
Do you call this utterly miscellaneous because why choose that particular product, or because of how it's displayed (instead of gathering the powers of 3 — or better, sqrt(3) — in one place) ?
—Dan The former. I wouldn't consider eccentric notation "miscellaneous". But Gauss gave us a formula for Γ(x+1/n) Γ(x+2/n) ... Γ(x+1). Why exhibit this nebbish special case of it? --rwg
On Dec 9, 2016, at 12:50 AM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
the utterly miscellaneous Product[Gamma[k/3], {k, 8}] == 640/3^6 (\[Pi]/Sqrt[3])^3