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NewtonBasis - Newton polynomials on a set of nodes
Calling Sequence
NewtonBasis(k, nodes, x)
Parameters
k
-
algebraic expression; the index
nodes
list of algebraic expressions; nodes where the polynomial is known
x
algebraic expression; the argument
Description
The th Newton polynomial of degree is defined by
The degree of the th Newton polynomial is . By convention, the nodes are indexed from , so .
At present, this can only be evaluated in Maple by prior use of the object-oriented representation obtained by P:=convert(p,MatrixPolynomialObject,x) and subsequent call to P:-Value(<x-value>), which uses Horner's method to evaluate the polynomial .
Examples
The coefficients of that polynomial can be interpreted in terms of divided differences of the values of at the nodes.
Note that the result returned by represents a matrix polynomial; hence these results are 1 by 1 matrices.
See Also
BernsteinBasis, convert/MatrixPolynomialObject, LagrangeBasis, LinearAlgebra[CompanionMatrix], OrthogonalSeries, PochhammerBasis, type/MatrixPolynomialObject
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