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Efficient evaluation of multivariate polynomials. (English) Zbl 0606.65007
The authors give an algorithm to evaluate a polynomial of total degree d defined on a triangle T in the plane, $p(r,s,t)=\sum^{d}_{i=0}\sum^{i}_{j=0}c_{d-i,i-j,j}\cdot r^{d- i}s^{i-j}t^ j,$ where $$c_{d-i,i-j,j}=(d!/(d-i)!(i-j)!j!)b_{d- i,i-j,j}$$, $$0\leq j\leq i$$, $$0\leq i\leq d$$, and (r,s,t) are the barycentric coordinates of each point in T, and $$b_{ijk}$$ are the coefficients in the algorithm of de Casteljau. This algorithm is significantly faster than de Casteljau.
Reviewer: A.López-Carmona

##### MSC:
 65D10 Numerical smoothing, curve fitting 41A10 Approximation by polynomials 65D20 Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables 41A63 Multidimensional problems (should also be assigned at least one other classification number from Section 41-XX)
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