RFC: evaluate the Gauss hypergeometric function

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Add support for evaluating the Gauss hypergeometric function.

Package: @stdlib/math/base/special/hyp2f1
Alias: base.hypergeometric2f1 or base.hyp2f1

WARNING: this implementation is quite involved, but is useful as is used in other implementations, such as evaluating Legendre polynomials.

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Reference implementations.

• Cephes
• Mathematica