Newbie question re: finding an equation for a set of knownvariables?
Subject: Newbie question re: finding an equation for a set of knownvariables?
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:59:58 -0700
This process is called polynomial interpolation. You can look it up on
wikipedia, for example.
RJF
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> Subject: Newbie question re: finding an equation for
> a set of knownvariables?
>
> Rather than solving an equation for a variable(s), I'm
> wondering if it's
> possible to find (simple) equations provided all of the
> variable values?
> For example, given the values:
>
> a=5, b=3, c=1, d=7
> a=10, b=5, c=2, d=13
>
> where the variables provided are identified as either LHS (a,
> b, c) or
> RHS (d) for Maxima to determine the equation that fits the variables.
> In this example the result I would be looking for is a+b-c=d.
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
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