Thanks for your responses. Actually, I am looking for polynomial
approximation of a function more than rational approximation.
Ray: Can you please share your script for polynomial approximation in
maxima?
Thanks,
Kalyan
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Kalyanramu Vemishetty <
> kalyanramu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Maple has command "minimax" which gives minimax rational approximation.
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>> e.g., minimax(e^x, x=0..1,5).
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>> Is there a similar command or series of steps in maxima to get the same
>> information?
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> I don't think maxima has this.
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> However, a while ago, I started writing one for polynomial approximation.
> I think it works, even if it's not very pretty. I started hacking one for
> rational approximations, but this doesn't work very well.
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> Ray
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