Hypergeo fix #1510
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CHANGELOG.mdentrySummary
This is a fix for #1508
Thanks a lot to @WarrenWeckesser for finding it.
And it also replaces the very crude Stirling's approximation with something more precise without depending on a
ln_gammaimplementation.Details
I do not have evidence that the stirling errors effect sampling in a big way, but I also do not have evidence that they do not and the error is quite big for small values.
For performance reasons we could shift by less than 3, but the LOGSQRT2PI correction is cheap and helps already a lot. The 1/12v term might also not matter that much.