Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2002/iii/paper-61/4/b/solution

Uniform knots give translation invariance . Put and set missing values to zero. The recurrence in part (a) gives the exact numerical recursion
The order-two starting row is . For example, the order-four middle value is , and the order-six central value is . Iteration gives the requested array, listing :
The symmetry follows from reflection of the uniform Cardinal B-spline about the midpoint of its support. The row sums equal one, consistent with sampling the uniform partition of unity. These are partition-normalized values; normalizing each spline to have peak one would produce a different array.

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