Newton's Divided Differences and its associated Polynomial
Version 1.0.1 (2.04 KB) by
Manuel A. Diaz
Computes Newton's table for Divided Differences and the coefficients of the associated polynomial function for a given dataset (X,Y).
This function solves the following formula:
Pn(x) = f(x0) + f[x0,x1](x-x0) + f[x0,x1,x2](x-x0)(x-x1) + ... + f[x0,x1,..,xn](x-x0)(x-x1)..(x-x[n-1]),
where:
f[x0,x1] = (f(x1-f(x0))/(x1-x0),
f[x0,x1,..,xn] = (f[x1,..,xn]-f[x0,..,x_[n-1]])/(xn-x0), .... ,
i.e. the divided differences.
This function was inspired by the function by the Divided Differences function of T.R.
Here, I simply added the capability of directly outputting the coefficients of the associated polynomial. So that the polynomial can be evaluated to produce interpolations/extrapolations directly with Matlab's 'polyval' function.
Happy coding ; )
Cite As
Manuel A. Diaz (2026). Newton's Divided Differences and its associated Polynomial (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/91130-newton-s-divided-differences-and-its-associated-polynomial), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with
R2019b
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
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Acknowledgements
Inspired by: Newton's Method for Divided Differences.
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