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Find point at which equation stops having roots (if it exists)

I am interested in the roots of this function: f[M_, b_] := 1 - (2 M Gamma[2, 0, (1/M + b M)/Sqrt[b]])/(1/M + b M) for fixed values of b. In particular I want ...
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Strange behaviour of PolyLog Function

I discovered some strange behaviour of the PolyLog[] Function in Mathematica which seems to me like a bug in the function implementation. It looks like ...
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Implementation of Incomplete Fermi-Dirac Integral in Mathematica

I'm working on a special algorithm to implement a more accurate effective mass calculation for hole carriers in silicon in Mathematica. This rather involved algorithm uses incomplete Fermi-Dirac ...
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Fast Spherical Harmonics radiative transfer

This is a rather specific question and I apologize for spamming you with some lengthy code. But it could be interesting for some reader and maybe you can help out, so please bear with me. I am using ...
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About multi-root search in Mathematica for transcendental equations

I have some questions for multiroot search for transcendental equations. Is there any clever solution to find all the roots for a transcendental equation in a specific range? Perhaps ...
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Numerical underflow for a scaled error function

I calculate scaled error function defined as f[x_] := Erfc[x]*Exp[x^2] but it can not calculate f[30000.]. ...