From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9869 invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2009 17:17:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 9860 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Dec 2009 17:17:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.network-theory.co.uk (HELO mail.network-theory.co.uk) (66.199.228.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:17:02 +0000 Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:17:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87d42ggnsv.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> From: Brian Gough To: Rhys Ulerich Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Where a generalized Richardson extrapolation routine would fit in GSL? In-Reply-To: <4a00655d0912131549w19638273nb51d723e9ddd9273@mail.gmail.com> References: <4a00655d0908201247g7d7bd9a1t466f4a66f08df4@mail.gmail.com> <4a00655d0911291536t5a11752fp27ab9c274148f822@mail.gmail.com> <4a00655d0911291538y9f29830v984d1a796fdd5d1@mail.gmail.com> <4a00655d0912131549w19638273nb51d723e9ddd9273@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/22.1 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Message-Mac: 6bd61bbf96796aa6e4a980f66552382d Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-q4/txt/msg00061.txt.bz2 At Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:49:28 -0600, Rhys Ulerich wrote: > Attached is a patch adding Richardson extrapolation routines, tests, > documentation, and an example. Please let me know if I can answer any > questions. Thanks, I have tested it out. One question: it looks like this extrapolates a vector quantity. For simplicity, would it make sense to work with scalars as in the gsl_sum routines -- since presumably that is the common case -- or is there some application where vector extrapolation is unavoidable? (could each component can be extrapolated independently?)