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do? ..[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] ([[User talk:Walterpachl|talk]]) 18:13, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
:In [http://www.netlib.org/lapack/ LAPACK]'s documentation. [[User:Eoraptor|Eoraptor]] ([[User talk:Eoraptor|talk]]) 16:27, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
== Not what I expected ==
Adding here in case others get confused as I did...
I was expecting this code to generate a polynomial that matched to a series of x,y points, so that I could then use that formula to extrapolate. However, it seems that all the coefficients are sensitive to the absolute magnitude of the x values. :( For example, if I change the original data x values from 0-11 to 1000-1011 I get the answer
y = 2998001 - 5998*x - 0.036*x*x
I was expecting that it would change the first coefficient, but this is clearly a completely differently shaped parabola from y = 1 + 2x +3x*x
Fortunately, my data is a time series and in order, so I can subtract the initial x value from all the following x values.
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