TY - JOUR AB - 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. VL - 8 IS - 2 SN - 0264-4401 DO - 10.1108/eb023833 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023833 AU - CHAN A.H.C. PY - 1991 Y1 - 1991/01/01 TI - THE MAGIC OF GAUSS QUADRATURE T2 - Engineering Computations PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 189 EP - 190 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -