Two polynomials p(x) and q(x) are said to be permutable if p(q(x)) = q(p(x)) for all x. It’s not hard…
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Negative space graph
Here is a plot of the first 30 Chebyshev polynomials. Notice the interesting patterns in the white space. Forman Acton…
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There are two sequences of polynomials named after Chebyshev, and the first is so much more common that when authors…
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There’s more juice left in the lemon we’ve been squeezing lately. A few days ago I first brought up the…
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Chebyshev polynomials satisfy a lot of identities, much like trig functions do. This point will look briefly at just one…
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In the previous post I mentioned that Remez algorithm computes the best polynomial approximation to a given function f as…
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