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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2011 P 2 b Solution by
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Since , take , . Exactness for and requires and . ThusFor , both node values and its weighted integral vanish. For , oddness and symmetric nodes likewise give zero on both sides. Therefore for . These four Chebyshev polynomials have successive degrees zero through three and form a basis of the degree-at-most-three polynomial space. By linearity, the rule is exact on that whole space: this is two-node Gauss–Chebyshev quadrature.
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