Add associated Legendre function calculations #505
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The numba-based functions calculate the associated Legendre functions (unnormalized, Schmidt normalized, and fully normalized) and their derivatives$\dfrac{\partial P_n^m}{\partial \theta}(\cos\theta)$ . The derivatives functions can be used to calculate higher order derivatives as well. Values are tested against analytical solutions for the first 4 degrees as well as an identity for the Schmidt functions and the Legendre equation for the Schmidt and fully normalized functions. The values are returned as 2D numpy arrays. This is a bit of a waste of memory but it's much easier to use than storing these in sparse matrices or 1D arrays. But it should be acceptable since we're unlikely to ever go over ~2700 degree so the waste is in the order of a few Mb at worse.
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