fix(minor): all five MINOR findings — doc, accuracy, and DRY

MINOR-1 (spherical_functional.hpp:426)
  Wrong comment said "second derivative < 0 for a convex functional".
  The spherical energy is *concave* (NSD Hessian); the monotone-f argument
  applies to both convex and concave functionals equally.  Comment rewritten
  to explain the actual physics: increasing scale increases all angles and
  thus reduces Σ G_v.

MINOR-2 (spherical_functional.hpp:494-495)
  Forward finite difference O(ε) → central finite difference O(ε²):
    old: dft = (sum_Gv(t + fd_eps) - ft) / fd_eps
    new: dft = (sum_Gv(t + fd_eps) - sum_Gv(t - fd_eps)) / (2*fd_eps)
  Same cost when the extra sum_Gv(t - fd_eps) replaces the cached ft.

MINOR-3 (euclidean_functional.hpp, spherical_functional.hpp,
         inversive_distance_functional.hpp)
  New header gauss_legendre.hpp centralises the 10-point Gauss-Legendre
  nodes and weights (gl10_nodes() / gl10_weights()).  The three energy
  functions now use the shared accessors instead of duplicated local
  static arrays.

MINOR-4 (euclidean_functional.hpp, spherical_functional.hpp,
         hyper_ideal_functional.hpp, inversive_distance_functional.hpp)
  halfedge_to_index() centralised in conformal_mesh.hpp.  All four local
  aliases (eucl_hidx, spher_hidx, hidx, id_detail::hidx) now delegate to
  it as one-line wrappers; the aliases are kept for now to avoid a larger
  call-site churn, clearly documented as thin wrappers.

MINOR-5 (clausen.hpp:33-38)
  Added a comment above inits() explaining the intentional off-by-one
  return value and how it interacts with csevl() — matching the Java
  Clausen.inits() / csevl() contract.

277/277 CGAL + 26/26 pure-math tests pass, 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

code/include/conformal_mesh.hpp

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 
 #include <CGAL/Simple_cartesian.h>
 #include <CGAL/Surface_mesh.h>
+#include <cstdint>
 #include <string>
 
 namespace conformallab {
@@ -107,4 +108,23 @@ inline auto add_face_properties(ConformalMesh& mesh)
     return ftype;
 }
 
+// ── Half-edge index helper ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+//
+// Convert a Halfedge_index to std::size_t for use as a vector subscript.
+// Each functional previously duplicated this one-liner under a name like
+// eucl_hidx / spher_hidx / hidx.  Centralised here (MINOR-4 fix).
+//
+// Implementation: the double-cast uint32_t → size_t is intentional.  CGAL 6.x
+// Surface_mesh stores half-edge indices internally as 32-bit unsigned integers.
+// Casting directly to size_t on a 64-bit system would produce the same result
+// because CGAL index types use non-negative values, but the explicit intermediate
+// cast documents the assumption and silences spurious sign-conversion warnings.
+
+/// Convert a `Halfedge_index` to `std::size_t` for vector subscript use.
+/// Replaces the duplicated `eucl_hidx`, `spher_hidx`, `hidx` helpers.
+inline std::size_t halfedge_to_index(Halfedge_index h) noexcept
+{
+    return static_cast<std::size_t>(static_cast<std::uint32_t>(h));
+}
+
 } // namespace conformallab