THE MAGIC OF GAUSS QUADRATURE
A.H.C. CHAN
(Department of Civil Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, UK)
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Abstract
For those who are working with the finite element method, one may somehow wonder why a n point Gauss‐Legendre quadrature formula can integrate a 2n—1 order polynomial exactly. The purpose of this note is to unravel the secret.
Citation
CHAN, A.H.C. (1991), "THE MAGIC OF GAUSS QUADRATURE", Engineering Computations, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 189-190. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023833
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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