std:: hermite, std:: hermitef, std:: hermitel

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Defined in header <cmath>
(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)
Defined in header <cmath>
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 .

Parameters

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

Return value

If no errors occur, value of the order- n Hermite polynomial of x , that is (-1) n e x 2
d n
dx n
e -x 2
, is returned.

Error handling

Errors may be reported as specified in math_errhandling .

  • If the argument is NaN, NaN is returned and domain error is not reported.
  • If n is greater or equal than 128, the behavior is implementation-defined.

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 equation u ,, -2xu , = -2nu .

The first few are:

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

Example

#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
 
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:

7880=7880
155212=155212

See also

(C++17) (C++17) (C++17)
Laguerre polynomials
(function)
(C++17) (C++17) (C++17)
Legendre polynomials
(function)

External links

Weisstein, Eric W. "Hermite Polynomial." From MathWorld — A Wolfram Web Resource.