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Re: I want to get the coefficient of the Legendre-Gauss Quadrature

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• Subject: [mg36369] Re: I want to get the coefficient of the Legendre-Gauss Quadrature
• From: Selwyn Hollis <slhollis at earthlink.net>
• Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 01:41:13 -0400 (EDT)
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The package NumericalMath`GaussianQuadrature` has what you want.

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Selwyn Hollis


Long Green wrote:
> Hi;
> I want to get the coefficient of the Legendre-Gauss Quadrature, 
> I find this method is fast, but when the integration result is big, then the result is
> not accurate enough, I think it is because I only use 5 coefficient to compute it.
> Do you think it will be accurater when I use more coefficients to compute?
> Is possible to get 16 coefficients to compute?
> The 6 coefficients I use are from:
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Legendre-GaussQuadrature.html
> 
> I need more coefficients  to get accurater result. 
> How about the method of the Integration function built-in Mathematica?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chen
>