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From: Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>
To: Patrick Alken <patrick.alken@colorado.edu>
Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: New extension for Associated Legendre Functions (ALFs)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wsaojsln.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090316213137.GA4277@hippogriff.homeunix.org>

At Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:31:37 -0600,
Patrick Alken wrote:
>   Most current implementations of associated Legendre functions
> (ALFs), including the current GSL version fail due to underflow
> above degree and order (L,M) 1900.  A 2002 paper by Holmes and
> Featherstone shows that with a very simple scaling modification
> this limit can be extended to 2700 in double precision. I have
> recently needed to compute high degree ALFs so I have implemented
> their algorithm and made a new GSL extension if others are interested.

Great work!

Incidentally, I found a copy of their paper online at
http://www.cage.curtin.edu.au/~geogrp/research.html
http://www.cage.curtin.edu.au/~will/20760279.pdf

-- 
Brian Gough

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-16 21:29 Patrick Alken
2009-03-17 11:37 ` Brian Gough [this message]
2009-03-17 16:23   ` Patrick Alken

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