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#1 2005-08-01 23:43:57

kylekatarn
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#2 2005-08-02 00:29:03

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Re: .

I think I could fit a polynomial to that, as there are no duplicate x-values. But the polynomial is likely to swing around a lot and also move wildly past the end points.

B-splines can do a neater job, but are not a single "function" as such, they are more like polynomial-segments (I can't remember the details, though)


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#3 2005-08-02 00:58:12

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Re: .

Excel says that y=-0.1481x^4+0.6293x³+4.4564x²-12.367x-8^-10, presumably to 5 significant figures each. This is a quartic function, and even though the highest required point is 8, its highest point is almost 50, so as MathsIsFun says, there is probably a better way, involving trigonometry or something.


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#4 2005-08-02 02:38:41

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You can post pictures here as long as they are viewable somewhere else on the net.

[img]link to picture[/img]

If you want to upload images from your computer, I think you need to upload them onto another site first and then link to it.


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