## Copyright 2015 Oliver Heimlich
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @documentencoding UTF-8
## @defmethod {@@infsupdec} gammaln (@var{X})
##
## Compute the logarithm of the gamma function for positive arguments.
##
## @tex
## $$
##  {\rm gammaln} (x) = \log \int_0^\infty t^{x-1} \exp (-t) dt
## $$
## @end tex
## @ifnottex
## @group
## @verbatim
##                    ∞
##                   /
## gammaln (x) = log | t^(x-1) exp (-t) dt
##                   /
##                  0
## @end verbatim
## @end group
## @end ifnottex
##
## Accuracy: The result is a tight enclosure.
##
## @example
## @group
## gammaln (infsupdec (1.5))
##   @result{} ans ⊂ [-0.12079, -0.12078]_com
## @end group
## @end example
## @seealso{@@infsupdec/psi, @@infsupdec/gamma, @@infsupdec/factorial}
## @end defmethod

## Author: Oliver Heimlich
## Keywords: interval
## Created: 2015-02-28

function result = gammaln (x)

  if (nargin ~= 1)
    print_usage ();
    return
  endif

  result = newdec (gammaln (x.infsup));

  ## gammaln is continuous everywhere, but defined for x > 0 only
  persistent domain_hull = infsup (0, inf);
  result.dec(not (interior (x.infsup, domain_hull))) = _trv ();

  result.dec = min (result.dec, x.dec);

endfunction

%!assert (isequal (gammaln (infsupdec (-inf, inf)), infsupdec ("[-0x1.F19B9BCC38A42p-4, +Inf]_trv")));

%!# from the documentation string
%!assert (isequal (gammaln (infsupdec (1.5)), infsupdec ("[-0x1.EEB95B094C192p-4, -0x1.EEB95B094C191p-4]_com")));
