S38 Observation thread
Anonymous
20 Mar 2006 15:54:13 UTC
Topic 13299
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[Bruce suggested to me Chebyshev polinomials instead of Taylor series a month ago. I did a fast test to compare these methods, but I found that Chebyshev approximation produced worse average by same number of coefficients. I'm working on a program that will generate more precise values)
See Section 5.8 page 192 of Numerical Recipes. You should also look at page 76 of Abramowitz and Stegun.