Day 21 in Mat360

Today:

• Announcements:
  • Collect problems 2.6.

  • Questions/Comments on old stuff? How did it go with Gail?

  • An alternate form of the interpolating polynomial suggests a slick (and even a recursive) way of calculating polynomial values: Neville's method
    • Derivation

• Section 3.2:
  • section 3.2 summary

  • Neville gives us some insight into a procedure for calculating the coefficients of the interpolating polynomial.... The Newton form of the interpolating polynomial.