I give a lot of "soft" talks at conferences, but my talk this weekend includes the phrase "confluent hypergeometric function" so
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Contextually, it means functions that can be written in terms of a hypergeometric series, itself an "extension" of the geometric series.
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A geometric series is a series where the ratio of consecutive terms is constant. For hypergeometric series, the ratio of consecutive terms..
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can be described by a rational function. So it's a looser constraint, i.e. geometric series are a special case of hypergeometric series.
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