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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 ib Paper 4 8D b Solution by
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Keep the original four-node interpolation polynomial . The correction must vanish at all four original nodes, so a degree-at-most-four interpolant has the formSince and the product at is , matching the new value gives , hence . Expanding yieldsIt takes the values at the five nodes. The same root-count argument proves uniqueness of this interpolation polynomial.
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