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Originally Posted by progdirjim
umm, I'm an Engineer with 4 semesters of college calculus, and I got 780 out of a possible 800 on the math SAT, and I cannot say the gamma function is "common" - but yes, fun nonetheless...
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I won't brag about my SAT or ACT math scores.
Undergrad was chock full of math: 4 semesters of (5 credit) advanced calc. (thanks to my scoring on the ACT), differential equations, vector calc., linear algebra, tensor calc., discrete statistics, continuous statistics, and applied eng. calc., and I taught the latter as a grad student. Looking back on that list, I wonder how I ever manage to get any beer drinking in.
I first used the gamma function in undergraduate Statistical Thermodynamics and Stochastic Processes. In graduate school, the gamma function appeared in many statistical determinations of noise in various information systems.
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