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Re: Root finding for specific polynomials
- To: Charlie Zender <zender at uci dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Root finding for specific polynomials
- From: Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:54:33 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: GSL Discussion List <gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <200110121759.f9CHxsv19246@dust.ps.uci.edu>
Charlie Zender writes:
> I'm wondering if there are any plans to implement optimized GSL
> functions for finding roots of specific polynomials, e.g., Legendre
> polynomials.
No plans to add anything myself... if somebody wants to come up with
an implementation that sounds fine by me.
> It seems to me there might be a place in GSL for optimized
> root-finding functions for the special functions. Certainly there
> are an abundance of such accelerated techniques that could be added
> over time.