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Re: Chebyshev approximations.


On Sunday, Jun 8, 2003, at 19:13 Europe/Rome, Brian Gough wrote:

Andrea Riciputi writes:
Reading the reference manual's chapter about Chebyshev
approximation it's not clear (at least to me) how the c_n are
defined. In particular I've found out that I've to double all the
coefficients I've calculated by my own, in order to get
gsl_cheb_eval to work properly.  My c_n definition is: c_n = k
\int{0}{\pi} f(x) \cos(n x) dx where k = 2/pi if n != 0 and k =
1/pi if n == 0. Given these definitions the series expansion is:
f(x) = \sum{k = 0}{N} c_k cos(k x) Where am I wrong?

I think it's a bug -- the implementation is different from the definition given in the manual, there is a factor of 0.5 which needs to be moved from the eval function to the init function.

Brian

Probably the bug was in my own code. I reworked it out and now everything seems to work smoothly. GSL implementation, according to Numerical Recipes, is good. Sorry for the mistake.


Cheers,
Andrea.

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Andrea Riciputi

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  but that is not the reason we are doing it" -- (Richard Feynman)


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