Dear John,

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, John Peterson wrote:

> I'm not sure about your implementation of L_INF.  You're taking
>
> ||e||_{\infty} = max_q |e(x_q)|
>
> where x_q are the quadrature points.  In fact, isn't the solution
> sometimes superconvergent at the quadrature points, and therefore this
> approximation could drastically under-predict the L-infty norm?

Oh, I see, I (again) forgot that people are using different ansatz 
functions than piecewise linear (for which this is obviously correct).

What about returning this value as the DISCRETE_L_INF norm instead? 
In particular since the FEMNormType enum offers this norm anyway.

Best Regards,

Tim

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