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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This is an excerpt from my math models textbook. It's about Lagrange Polynomials which is a technique that lets you fit a polynomial to a set of any number of unique points (x_1,y_1) ... (x_n,y_n) so long as all your x-values are different (otherwise it wouldn't be a function, and couldn't be a polynomial). The polynomial you'll calculate will be the unique, lowest degree polynomial that passes through all points.

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

If you're not very convincing, convince yourself that the polynomial is not cubic. When you fail, you will be convinced that it is cubic. QED

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