Evaluation of computational algorithms for the Associated Legendre Polynomials by interval analysis
- 1 April 1971
- journal article
- Published by Seismological Society of America (SSA) in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Vol. 61 (2) , 375-381
- https://doi.org/10.1785/bssa0610020375
Abstract
An interval arithmetic that consists of tracing the number of significant figures during each calculation is applied to computational algorithms for the Associated Legendre Polynomial, Pnm(cos ϑ). The results indicate that the interval arithmetic scheme is a good estimator for the propagation of round-off errors and that one particular algorithm [a recurrence relation that relates Pnm (cos ϑ) to Pnn(cos ϑ)] is by far the superior computational scheme.Keywords
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