gammaln

Scilab Function
Last update : September 1997

gammaln - The logarithm of gamma function.

### Calling Sequence

  `y = gammaln(x)`

### Parameters

- `x`: real vector
- `y`: real vector with same size.

### Description

`gammaln(x)` evaluates the logarithm of gamma function at all the elements of `x`, avoiding underflow and overflow. `x` must be real.

### Examples

    gammaln(0.5)

### See Also

`gamma`, `dlgamma`,

### Author

W. J. Cody and L. Stoltz (code from Netlib (specfun))