scipy.special.rgamma#

scipy.special.rgamma(z, out=None) = <ufunc 'rgamma'>#

Reciprocal of the gamma function.

Defined as \(1 / \Gamma(z)\), where \(\Gamma\) is the gamma function. For more on the gamma function see gamma.

Parameters:

zarray_like: Real or complex valued input
outndarray, optional: Optional output array for the function results

Returns:

scalar or ndarray: Function results

See also

gamma, gammaln, loggamma

Notes

The gamma function has no zeros and has simple poles at nonpositive integers, so rgamma is an entire function with zeros at the nonpositive integers. See the discussion in [dlmf] for more details.

References

[dlmf]

Nist, Digital Library of Mathematical functions, https://dlmf.nist.gov/5.2#i

Examples

>>> import scipy.special as sc

It is the reciprocal of the gamma function.

>>> sc.rgamma([1, 2, 3, 4])
array([1.        , 1.        , 0.5       , 0.16666667])
>>> 1 / sc.gamma([1, 2, 3, 4])
array([1.        , 1.        , 0.5       , 0.16666667])

It is zero at nonpositive integers.

>>> sc.rgamma([0, -1, -2, -3])
array([0., 0., 0., 0.])

It rapidly underflows to zero along the positive real axis.

>>> sc.rgamma([10, 100, 179])
array([2.75573192e-006, 1.07151029e-156, 0.00000000e+000])