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Re: Why polynomial Can't output as Number?

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  • Subject: [mg69011] Re: Why polynomial Can't output as Number?
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:04:59 -0400 (EDT)
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On 8/24/06 at 3:40 AM, sunose at gmail.com (William wang) wrote:

>data={7,2,3,25,1,10}; 
>f=InterpolatingPolynomial[data,x]; 
>f/.x->5;

>Result as attachment picture.

>why can't get a simply number?

Here, it does return a number

In[30]:=
data = {7, 2, 3, 25, 1, 10}; 
f = InterpolatingPolynomial[data, x]; 
f /. x -> 5

Out[32]=
1

which tells me there is something else going on in your notebook. Try this in a fresh session. Do you still have a problem?
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