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On the function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. S. Meligy
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
E. M. EL Gazzy
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Extract

In a previous paper (3) one of us reported an expansion for the exponential integral

in terms of Bessel functions. In this note, we shall obtain the more general formula

where n is any positive integer, γ is Euler's constant and

It reduces to that in (3) when n = 1.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1963

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