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- From: Ulf.Lunde@kvatro.no (Ulf Lunde)
- Subject: Wanted: Numerical method
- Message-ID: <ULF.LUNDE.92Sep4095830@grim.kvatro.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Kvatro A/S, Trondheim, Norway
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- Date: 4 Sep 92 09:58:30
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- Given a set of numbers, say {47, 79, 167, 223, 359, 439, 727, 839, 3 967} or
- {383, 467, 659, 883, 1 583, 2 099, 2 287, 2 687, 3 119, 3 583}, how does one go
- about in finding a smooth (polynomial) function f(x) which outputs those
- numbers for different (not necessarily neighbouring) integer values of x?
- Preferably a polynomial of low order and with a positive first coefficient.
- E.g., given the set of numbers:
-
- {8 297 644 387, 12 478 210 777, 16 658 777 167, 29 200 476 337}
-
- I would like the procedure to yield:
-
- f(x) = 4180566390x + 4117077997.
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