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Twitter proof: interpolating polynomials


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In this post I will show the existence of a family of polynomials that are very useful for interpolation. For that I will use what are known as Lagrange polynomials.

Claim: given n+1 pairs (xi,yi) with 0in and with xixj whenever ij, there exists a polynomial p(x) of degree at most n such that p(xi)=yi, i=0,,n

Twitter proof: consider the polynomial li(x)=jixxjxixj
with li(xi)=1 and li(xj)=0 whenever ji. Define p(x) to be p(x)=ni=0yili(x)
p(x) has degree at most n because so do the li(x) and p(xk)=iyili(xk)=yk.

In a future post I will show the uniqueness of the polynomial satisfying the constraints in the claim.

  - RGS

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