haskell / haskell/math-functions

Investigate precision of invIncompleteBeta a b x for very small x

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Description

Function could return answers which are orders of magnitude off. It could be due to the fact that we revert to bisection which is linear instead of cubic Halley.

```
>>> (\a b -> incompleteBeta a b . invIncompleteBeta a b) 90 90 1e-200
9.866213992257607e-197
```

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