[Help-gsl] Re: IEEE environment variable under Windows

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 07/ 7/10 01:46 PM, Chao Ding wrote:
> If GSL_IEEE does NOT work in Windows, the initiation of the underflow
> in my problem is that, I am computing a beta-binomial probability,
> which is
> gsl_sf_choose(n, k) * gsl_sf_beta(s+ k, f + n-k) /gsl_sf_beta(s, f);
>
> When s, f get larger, the problem of underflow happens. Is there any
> way to get rid of the underflow problem without GSL_IEEE_MODE setting?
>
> Thanks,
> Chao

Does re-writing in terms of gsl_sf_lnbeta help?

Rodney