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<h2 class="chapter">7 Special Functions</h2>
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<p>This chapter describes the GSL special function library. The library
includes routines for calculating the values of Airy functions, Bessel
functions, Clausen functions, Coulomb wave functions, Coupling
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Elliptic integrals, Jacobi elliptic functions, Error functions,
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