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Add Appell functions?

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Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
julia
Domain
backend

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The issue names no repository files or tests. Start by reviewing the package's current hypergeometric-function implementations and the linked Fortran, R, and mpmath references; done would mean a decided, maintained Julia implementation of at least the Appell F1 function.

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Description

Any interest or obvious route from the current implementations to adding Appell function support to this package? I would mainly be interested in F1 for my application case.

It seems currently the only reasonable implementations of these functions are in the form of this Fortran package, which also has an R wrapper, and the as far as I can tell independent implementation in the Python package mpmath - see also the documentation on mpmath.

Would be nice to be able to do this in Julia as well. Writing a wrapper would be straightforward but perhaps not in the spirit of the package?

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