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<p><font face="serif">Yes -- "spline" is both a noun and a verb and
tomorrow is SPLINE DAY. We will go through the nitty gritty details
tomorrow of how you should construct and use your cubic splines
for the project (and upcoming homework assignment). <br>
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<p><font face="serif">Also -- for those of you that are having some
difficulty getting started on your project I have provided file
readers in Java, C++ (two versions) and Fortran on the class
website in the EXAMPLES section. You are welcome to use these
as starting points for your code. You should be approaching
the point very soon where you can build the boxcar filter and
the the Savitzky-Golay filter. Please let me know if you have
questions about either of these. They may look complicated, but
its actually pretty simple.</font></p>
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<p>Finally -- as we close chapter three and move on more "tangible"
topics...<br>
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<p>Q. Why is it that the more accuracy you demand from an
interpolation function, the more expensive it becomes to compute?
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<p>A. That's the Law of Spline Demand.</p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pounds_aj@mercer.edu">pounds_aj@mercer.edu</a>)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj">http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj</a>
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