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1. Newton's Forward 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`)
Other related methods
  1. Newton's Forward Difference Interpolation formula
  2. Newton's Backward Difference Interpolation formula
  3. Newton's Divided Difference Interpolation formula
  4. Lagrange's Interpolation formula
  5. Lagrange's Inverse Interpolation formula
  6. Gauss Forward Interpolation formula
  7. Gauss Backward Interpolation formula
  8. Stirling's Interpolation formula
  9. Bessel's Interpolation formula
  10. Everett's Interpolation formula
  11. Hermite's Interpolation formula
  12. Missing terms in interpolation table

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2. Find Solution using Newton's Forward Difference formula
xf(x)
01
10
21
310

x = -1


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

x0123
y10110

Newton's forward difference interpolation method to find solution

Newton's forward difference table is
xy`Deltay``Delta^2y``Delta^3y`
01
-1
102
16
218
9
310


The value of `x` at you want to find the `f(x) : x = -1`

`h = x_1 - x_0 = 1 - 0 = 1`

`p = (x - x_0)/h = (-1 - 0)/1 = -1`

Newton's forward difference interpolation formula is
`y(x) = y_0 + p Delta y_0 + (p(p - 1))/(2!) * Delta^2y_0 + (p(p - 1)(p - 2))/(3!) * Delta^3y_0`

`y(-1) = 1 + (-1) xx -1 + (-1 (-1 - 1))/(2) xx 2 + (-1 (-1 - 1)(-1 - 2))/(6) xx 6`

`y(-1) = 1 +1 +2 -6`

`y(-1) = -2`


Solution of newton's forward interpolation method `y(-1) = -2`




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