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  2. Curve fitting - Wikipedia

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    Polynomial curves fitting points generated with a sine function. The black dotted line is the "true" data, the red line is a first degree polynomial, the green line is second degree, the orange line is third degree and the blue line is fourth degree. The first degree polynomial equation = + is a line with slope a. A line will connect any two ...

  3. Degree of a polynomial - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the polynomial has a degree of 5, which is the highest degree of any term. To determine the degree of a polynomial that is not in standard form, such as (+) (), one can put it in standard form by expanding the products (by distributivity) and combining the like terms; for example, (+) = is of degree 1, even though each summand has ...

  4. Order of approximation - Wikipedia

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    In the zeroth-order example above, the quantity "a few" was given, but in the first-order example, the number "4" is given. A first-order approximation of a function (that is, mathematically determining a formula to fit multiple data points) will be a linear approximation, straight line with a slope: a polynomial of degree 1. For example:

  5. Polynomial and rational function modeling - Wikipedia

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    where n is a non-negative integer that defines the degree of the polynomial. A polynomial with a degree of 0 is simply a constant function; with a degree of 1 is a line; with a degree of 2 is a quadratic; with a degree of 3 is a cubic, and so on. Historically, polynomial models are among the most frequently used empirical models for curve fitting.

  6. Gallery of curves - Wikipedia

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    1.1.7 Families of variable degree. ... 1.4 Curve families with variable genus. 2 Transcendental curves. ... Cubic polynomial. Folium of Descartes.

  7. Spline (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Single knots at 1/3 and 2/3 establish a spline of three cubic polynomials meeting with C 2 parametric continuity. Triple knots at both ends of the interval ensure that the curve interpolates the end points. In mathematics, a spline is a function defined piecewise by polynomials.

  8. Polynomial - Wikipedia

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    It consists of three terms: the first is degree two, the second is degree one, and the third is degree zero. Polynomials of small degree have been given specific names. A polynomial of degree zero is a constant polynomial, or simply a constant. Polynomials of degree one, two or three are respectively linear polynomials, quadratic polynomials ...

  9. Cramer's theorem (algebraic curves) - Wikipedia

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    The number of distinct terms (including those with a zero coefficient) in an n-th degree equation in two variables is (n + 1)(n + 2) / 2.This is because the n-th degree terms are ,, …,, numbering n + 1 in total; the (n − 1) degree terms are ,, …,, numbering n in total; and so on through the first degree terms and , numbering 2 in total, and the single zero degree term (the constant).