polpak


polpak, a Fortran90 code which evaluates a variety of mathematical functions, polynomials, and sequences, including Bell, Benford, Bernoulli, Bernstein, Cardan, Catalan, Charlier, Chebyshev, Collatz, Delannoy, Euler, Fibonacci, Gegenbauer, Gudermannian, Harmonic, Hermite, Hofstadter, Jacobi, Krawtchouk, Laguerre, Lambert, Legendre, Lerch, Meixner, Mertens, Moebius, Motzkin, Phi, Stirling, Tau, Tribonacci, Zernike.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

polpak is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version

Related Data and Programs:

polpak_test

bernstein_polynomial, a Fortran90 code which evaluates the Bernstein polynomials;

chebyshev_polynomial, a Fortran90 code which evaluates the Chebyshev polynomial and associated functions.

clausen, a Fortran90 code which evaluates a Chebyshev interpolant to the Clausen function Cl2(x).

cordic, a Fortran90 code which uses the CORDIC method to compute certain elementary functions.

fn, a Fortran90 code which evaluates elementary and special functions, by Wayne Fullerton.

gegenbauer_polynomial, a Fortran90 code which evaluates the Gegenbauer polynomial and associated functions.

hermite_polynomial, a Fortran90 code which evaluates the physicist's Hermite polynomial, the probabilist's Hermite polynomial, the Hermite function, and related functions.

jacobi_polynomial, a Fortran90 code which evaluates the Jacobi polynomial and associated functions.

laguerre_polynomial, a Fortran90 code which evaluates the Laguerre polynomial, the generalized Laguerre polynomials, and the Laguerre function.

legendre_polynomial, a Fortran90 code which evaluates the Legendre polynomial and associated functions.

legendre_product_polynomial, a Fortran90 code which defines Legendre product polynomials, creating a multivariate polynomial as the product of univariate Legendre polynomials.

lobatto_polynomial, a Fortran90 code which evaluates Lobatto polynomials, similar to Legendre polynomials except that they are zero at both endpoints.

special_functions, a Fortran90 code which computes the Beta, Error, Gamma, Lambda, Psi functions, the Airy, Bessel I, J, K and Y, Hankel, Jacobian elliptic, Kelvin, Mathieu, Struve functions, spheroidal angular functions, parabolic cylinder functions, hypergeometric functions, the Bernoulli and Euler numbers, the Hermite, Laguerre and Legendre polynomials, the cosine, elliptic, exponential, Fresnel and sine integrals, by Shanjie Zhang, Jianming Jin;

test_values, a Fortran90 code which contains a few test values of many functions.

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Last revised on 18 August 2020.