[6.40] [math] Add test and improve doxygen of finite difference methods#22840
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The standard second-order central, backward and forward differences contained a mistake: a factor-of-4 error. See finite different coefficients here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_difference_coefficient (cherry picked from commit 99c7a96)
Use a polynomial and its known derivatives to check the correctness of the finite difference methods. (cherry picked from commit 9851599)
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The test failed without any consequences because it was always returning 0. Other "tests" in this file will need to be updated to check their outputs in the future. Furthermore: - The second derivatives are unstable with short, so remove it from the test. - The targets for the second derivatives were wrong by a factor 4; fix. - Due to rounding, finite differences on integers don't exactly hit the target. Allow a delta of 1. (cherry picked from commit f3d03cb)
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Backport of #22823, requested by @hageboeck.