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This is very useful for the LE basis and the monomials!

Are we exporting these to Python as well? We need these functions for the tabulated splining if we don't want to add scipy as an additional dependency. Unfortunately, we would also need the derivatives as defined i.e. in scipy.special.spherical_jn.

Exporting these to Python was not really the plan since we are not in the business of providing special functions implementations (and actually most of this code would be better in a separate special-fn crate). I would rather add an optional dependency on scipy for this.

The idea for these was more to provide "creation of arbitrary radial basis splines" directly on the Rust side, or a pure Rust implementation of the LE basis.

Okay I see. I am asking because I am doing a general SplinedRadialBasis class in Python which will include LE and monomials.