Special Values For Fractional Arguments
There are the following special analytic values for fractional arguments between 0 and 1, given by the integral
More may be generated from the recurrence relation or from the reflection relation .
For every, integer or not, we have:
Based on, we have:, where is the Euler–Mascheroni constant or, more generally, for every n we have:
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