diff --git a/polynomial.h b/polynomial.h
index dafb6ec..6afc932 100644
--- a/polynomial.h
+++ b/polynomial.h
@@ -175,6 +175,45 @@ sum += p[0];
 return sum;
 }
 
+//evaluate only even powers
+template <typename T, typename C>
+C even_value(const Polynomial<T> &p, const C &x)
+{
+C sum(x); 
+sum=0; //get matrix dimension if C is a matrix
+int d=p.degree();
+if(d&1) --d;
+C x2 = x*x;
+for(int i=d; i>0; i-=2)
+  		 {
+       		 sum+= p[i];
+       		 sum= sum*x2; //not *= for matrices
+       		 }
+sum += p[0];
+return sum;
+}
+
+//evaluate only odd powers
+template <typename T, typename C>
+C odd_value(const Polynomial<T> &p, const C &x)
+{
+C sum(x);
+sum=0; //get matrix dimension if C is a matrix
+int d=p.degree();
+if(d==0) return sum;
+if((d&1)==0) --d;
+C x2 = x*x;
+for(int i=d; i>2; i-=2)
+                 {
+                 sum+= p[i];
+                 sum= sum*x2; //not *= for matrices
+                 }
+sum += p[1];
+sum *= x;
+return sum;
+}
+
+
 template <typename T, typename C>
 NRVec<C> values(const Polynomial<T> &p, const NRVec<C> &x)
 {
diff --git a/t.cc b/t.cc
index cead833..16faeda 100644
--- a/t.cc
+++ b/t.cc
@@ -2288,9 +2288,10 @@ if(1)
 {
 int n;
 cin >>n ;
-Polynomial<int> p=hermite_polynomial<int>(n);
+Polynomial<double> p=hermite_polynomial<double>(n);
 cout <<"Hermite = "<<p<<std::endl;
 cout <<"non-zero = "<< ((n&1)?p.odd_powers():p.even_powers())<<std::endl;
+cout <<"value = "<<value(p,1.23456789)<<" "<<odd_value(p,1.23456789)+even_value(p,1.23456789)<<endl;
 }