Re: Why won't Horner[] work?
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- Subject: [mg59027] Re: Why won't Horner[] work?
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:24:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Paul,
If you want to use Horner, you must first load the following package:
<<Algebra`Horner`
afterwards everything works fine.
sincerely, Daniel
Paul McHale wrote:
> When I issue the command:
>
> In:= Fit[ {{1,200},{200,0},{400,200}}, {1,x,x^2}, x]
>
> Out:= 202.01 - 2.01508 x + 0.00502513 x^2
> This seems good. But when I do
>
>
> In:= Horner[Fit[ {{1,200},{200,0},{400,200}}, {1,x,x^2}, x]]
>
> Out:= Horner[202.01 - 2.01508 x + 0.00502513 x^2]
>
>
> Why doesn't it evaluate the polynomial? To I need to convert the
> output of fit?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>