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<h3 class="section">6.1 Polynomial Evaluation</h3>
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— Function: double <b>gsl_poly_eval</b> (<var>const double c</var>[]<var>, const int len, const double x</var>)<var><a name="index-gsl_005fpoly_005feval-222"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>This function evaluates the polynomial
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c[0] + c[1] x + c[2] x^2 + \dots + c[len-1] x^{len-1} using
Horner's method for stability. An inline version of this function is used when <code>HAVE_INLINE</code> is defined.
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