[libcxx-commits] [libcxx] [libc++][math] Mathematical Special Functions: Hermite Polynomial (PR #89982)

[Nikolas Klauser via libcxx-commits]

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@@ -765,6 +766,54 @@ _LIBCPP_HIDE_FROM_ABI _LIBCPP_CONSTEXPR_SINCE_CXX20 _Tp __constexpr_scalbn(_Tp _
   return __builtin_scalbn(__x, __exp);
 }
 
+#if _LIBCPP_STD_VER >= 17
+
+/// \return the Hermite polynomial \f$ H_n(x) \f$
+/// \note The implementation is based on the recurrence formula
+/// \f[
+///   H_{n+1}(x) = 2x H_n(x) - 2n H_{n-1}
+/// \f]
+/// Press, William H., et al. Numerical recipes 3rd edition: The art of
+/// scientific computing. Cambridge university press, 2007, p. 183.
+template <class _Real>
+_LIBCPP_HIDE_FROM_ABI _Real __hermite(unsigned __n, _Real __x) {
+  if (std::isnan(__x))
+    return std::numeric_limits<_Real>::quiet_NaN();
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philnik777 wrote:

Is this correct? I'm not sure how to read the standard here, but it'd make a lot more sense to me if it returned the same NaN as was passed into the function.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/89982