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3. Newton's Divided Difference Interpolation formula example ( Enter your problem )
  1. Formula & Example-1 (table data)
  2. Example-2 (table data)
  3. Example-3 (`f(x)=x^3-x+1`)
  4. Example-4 (`f(x)=2x^3-4x+1`)

2. Example-2 (table data)





2. Find Solution using Newton's Divided Difference Interpolation formula
xf(x)
20.69315
2.50.91629
31.09861

x = 2.7


Solution:
The value of table for `x` and `y`

x22.53
y0.69320.91631.0986

Numerical divided differences method to find solution

Newton's divided difference table is
xy`1^(st)` order`2^(nd)` order
20.6932
`(0.9163-0.6932)/(2.5-2)=0.4463`
2.50.9163`(0.3646-0.4463)/(3-2)=-0.0816`
`(1.0986-0.9163)/(3-2.5)=0.3646`
31.0986


The value of `x` at you want to find the `f(x) : x = 2.7`

Newton's divided difference interpolation formula is
`f(x)=y_0 +(x-x_0) f[x_0, x_1]+(x-x_0)(x-x_1) f[x_0, x_1, x_2]`

`y(2.7) = 0.6932 + (2.7 -2) xx 0.4463 + (2.7 -2)(2.7 -2.5) xx -0.0816`

`y(2.7) = 0.6932 + (0.7) xx 0.4463 + (0.7)(0.2) xx -0.0816`

`y(2.7) = 0.6932 +0.3124 -0.0114`

`y(2.7) = 0.9941`


Solution of divided difference interpolation method `y(2.7) = 0.9941`




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