Re: [boost] Numerical Quadrature Library

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-05 10:15:38

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>From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
>[mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Franck Stauffer
>Sent: 05 December 2006 12:35
>To: boost_at_[hidden]
>Subject: Re: [boost] Numerical Quadrature Library

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>Since there is some (minor) interest in such a library I uploaded a  
>small example of the implementation I use. It does not contain all  
>the integration routines, especially romberg and Monte-Carlo. Before  
>including those, I'd like to get feedback on how people would like to  
>be able to call such a library.
>
>Right now it's tuned for my own usage, that's why I used template  
>classes and not just template functions.
>
>The main design objective was to be able to use it on any functor  
>inheriting from std::unary_function and any predicate to decide when  
>the required quadrature precision is achieved. There are undoubtedly  
>a lot of room for improvements, but it should perform slightly better  
>than a typical numerical recipes  in C algorithm while being a lot  
>more generic (and not involving static local variables ;-) ).

>http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~franck/quadrature.tar.gz
>
>Feedback is most welcome, as I'd really love to have a unified,  
>coherent approach to achieving quadrature in C++.

IMO quadrature would be a useful addition to Boost - and you should not be too discouraged by a modest response as the more
numerically inclined people tend to be intermittent lurkers rather than hard-core posters ;-)

Paul

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