std::legendre, std::legendref, std::legendrel

 

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double      legendre( unsigned int n, double x ); double      legendre( unsigned int n, float x ); double      legendre( unsigned int n, long double x ); float       legendref( unsigned int n, float x ); long double legendrel( unsigned int n, long double x );	(1)
double      legendre( unsigned int n, IntegralType x );	(2)

1) Computes the unassociated Legendre polynomials of the degree n and argument x.

2) A set of overloads or a function template accepting an argument of any integral type. Equivalent to (1) after casting the argument to double.

As all special functions, legendre is only guaranteed to be available in <cmath> if __STDCPP_MATH_SPEC_FUNCS__ is defined by the implementation to a value at least 201003L and if the user defines __STDCPP_WANT_MATH_SPEC_FUNCS__ before including any standard library headers.

Parameters

n	-	the degree of the polynomial
x	-	the argument, a value of a floating-point or integral type

Return value

If no errors occur, value of the order-n unassociated Legendre polynomial of x, that is

1

2n n!

dn

dxn

(x2
- 1)n
, is returned.

Error handling

Errors may be reported as specified in math_errhandling.

• If the argument is NaN, NaN is returned and domain error is not reported.
• The function is not required to be defined for |x| > 1.
• If n is greater or equal than 128, the behavior is implementation-defined.

Notes

Implementations that do not support TR 29124 but support TR 19768, provide this function in the header tr1/cmath and namespace std::tr1.

An implementation of this function is also available in boost.math.

The first few Legendre polynomials are:

• legendre(0, x) = 1.
• legendre(1, x) = x.
• legendre(2, x) =

  1

  2

  (3x2
  - 1).
• legendre(3, x) =

  1

  2

  (5x3
  - 3x).
• legendre(4, x) =

  1

  8

  (35x4
  - 30x2
  + 3).

Example

(works as shown with gcc 6.0)

Run this code

#define __STDCPP_WANT_MATH_SPEC_FUNCS__ 1
#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
 
double P3(double x)
{
    return 0.5 * (5 * std::pow(x, 3) - 3 * x);
}
 
double P4(double x)
{
    return 0.125 * (35 * std::pow(x, 4) - 30 * x * x + 3);
}
 
int main()
{
    // spot-checks
    std::cout << std::legendre(3, 0.25) << '=' << P3(0.25) << '\n'
              << std::legendre(4, 0.25) << '=' << P4(0.25) << '\n';
}

Output:

-0.335938=-0.335938
0.157715=0.157715

See also

laguerrelaguerreflaguerrel	Laguerre polynomials (function)
hermitehermitefhermitel	Hermite polynomials (function)

External links

Weisstein, Eric W. "Legendre Polynomial." From MathWorld — A Wolfram Web Resource.