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+## Remarks & Credit
+## https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanczos_approximation
+
+from cmath import sin, sqrt, pi, exp
+
+p = [676.5203681218851, -1259.1392167224028, 771.32342877765313, -176.61502916214059, 12.507343278686905, -0.13857109526572012, 9.9843695780195716e-6,1.5056327351493116e-7]
+
+EPSILON = 1e-07
+
+def drop_imag(z):
+    if abs(z.imag) <= EPSILON:
+        z = z.real
+
+    return z
+
+def gamma(z):
+    z = complex(z)
+
+    if z.real < 0.5:
+        y = pi / (sin(pi * z) * gamma(1 - z)) ## Reflection formula
+    else:
+        z = z - 1
+        x = 0.99999999999980993
+
+        for (i, pval) in enumerate(p):
+            x = x + pval / (z + i + 1)
+
+        t = z + len(p) - 0.5
+        y = sqrt(2 * pi) * t ** (z + 0.5) * exp(-t) * x
+
+    return drop_imag(y)
+
+"""
+The above use of the reflection (thus the if-else structure) is necessary, even though 
+it may look strange, as it allows to extend the approximation to values of z where 
+Re(z) < 0.5, where the Lanczos method is not valid.
+"""
+
+print(gamma(3))
+print(gamma(5))   
+print(gamma(7))