From acb81fb6e68413298e815e8eeb249daa9d9767f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bangerth Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:53:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Augment documentation. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@23847 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/include/deal.II/base/polynomial.h | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/polynomial.h b/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/polynomial.h index 59d75e9a36..9658c98152 100644 --- a/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/polynomial.h +++ b/deal.II/include/deal.II/base/polynomial.h @@ -387,11 +387,17 @@ namespace Polynomials /** - * Legendre polynomials of arbitrary degree on [0,1]. - * + * Legendre polynomials of arbitrary degree. * Constructing a Legendre polynomial of degree p, the coefficients * will be computed by the three-term recursion formula. * + * @note The polynomials defined by this class differ in two aspects by what + * is usually referred to as Legendre polynomials: (i) This classes defines + * them on the reference interval $[0,1]$, rather than the commonly used + * interval $[-1,1]$. (ii) The polynomials have been scaled in such a way that + * they are orthonormal, not just orthogonal; consequently, the polynomials do + * not necessarily have boundary values equal to one. + * * @author Guido Kanschat, 2000 */ class Legendre : public Polynomial -- 2.39.5