std::hermite, std::hermitef, std::hermitel - cppreference.com (original) (raw)

Defined in header
(1)
double hermite ( unsigned int n, double x ); float hermite ( unsigned int n, float x ); long double hermite ( unsigned int n, long double x ); (since C++17) (until C++23)
/* floating-point-type */ hermite( unsigned int n, /* floating-point-type */ x ); (since C++23)
float hermitef( unsigned int n, float x ); (2) (since C++17)
long double hermitel( unsigned int n, long double x ); (3) (since C++17)
Additional overloads
Defined in header
template< class Integer > double hermite ( unsigned int n, Integer x ); (A) (since C++17)

1-3) Computes the (physicist's) Hermite polynomials of the degree n and argument x. The library provides overloads of std::hermite for all cv-unqualified floating-point types as the type of the parameter x.(since C++23)

A) Additional overloads are provided for all integer types, which are treated as double.

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[edit] Parameters

n - the degree of the polynomial
x - the argument, a floating-point or integer value

[edit] Return value

If no errors occur, value of the order-n Hermite polynomial of x, that is (-1)n
_e_x2
_e_-x2
, is returned.

[edit] Error handling

Errors may be reported as specified in math_errhandling.

[edit] Notes

Implementations that do not support C++17, but support ISO 29124:2010, provide this function if __STDCPP_MATH_SPEC_FUNCS__ is defined by the implementation to a value at least 201003L and if the user defines __STDCPP_WANT_MATH_SPEC_FUNCS__ before including any standard library headers.

Implementations that do not support ISO 29124:2010 but support TR 19768:2007 (TR1), provide this function in the header tr1/cmath and namespace std::tr1.

An implementation of this function is also available in boost.math.

The Hermite polynomials are the polynomial solutions of the equationu,,
-2xu,
= -2nu.

The first few are:

Function Polynomial
hermite(0, x) 1
hermite(1, x) 2x
hermite(2, x) 4x2 - 2
hermite(3, x) 8x3 - 12x
hermite(4, x) 16x4 - 48x2 + 12

The additional overloads are not required to be provided exactly as (A). They only need to be sufficient to ensure that for their argument num of integer type, std::hermite(int_num, num) has the same effect as std::hermite(int_num, static_cast<double>(num)).

[edit] Example

#include #include   double H3(double x) { return 8 * std::pow(x, 3) - 12 * x; }   double H4(double x) { return 16 * std::pow(x, 4) - 48 * x * x + 12; }   int main() { // spot-checks std::cout << std::hermite(3, 10) << '=' << H3(10) << '\n' << std::hermite(4, 10) << '=' << H4(10) << '\n'; }

Output:

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