[CSC 335] Confirming the test question from earlier today

[Andrew J. Pounds]

On 10/26/21 5:46 PM,  wrote:
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> Good evening Dr. Pounds,
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> I just wanted to confirm the question I asked earlier today.             
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> For the First derivative of the function question:
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> Are you asking us to use one of the mid-point derivative formulas
> (three or five-point) and plug that into Richardson’s extrapolation,
> or are you asking us to use the central divided differences formula
> from chapter 3 and plug those into Richardson’s extrapolation?
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> Thank you for your time,                                    
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The extrapolation terms for the Richardson's extrapolation method
(equation 16) has a denominator that is based on using the central
difference approximation (equation 13 in the slides).  Hopefully that
answers your question.

-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds_aj at mercer.edu)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Director of the Computational Science Program
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627

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