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Full disclosure - I am not a mathematician, I am an amateur programmer who has recently heard of Padé Approximants and is desirous of learning more, as they look to be a useful tool, but not a panacea. |
Full disclosure - I am not a mathematician, I am an amateur programmer who has recently heard of Padé Approximants and is desirous of learning more, as they look to be a useful tool, but not a panacea. |
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A search of Rosetta Code at the time of writing (14 July 2021) finds no references to Padé or Pade on the site. A more general search of the Internet turns up such phrases as "is the "best" approximation of a function by a rational function of given order" and "The unreasonable effectiveness of Pade approximation", which piqued my interest. Generally there are scholarly papers in the subject that whoosh right over my head, and very little at the "pop-maths" level, i.e. no videos by my go-to YouTube channels - numberphile/computerphile, 3blue1brown, |
A search of Rosetta Code at the time of writing (14 July 2021) finds no references to Padé or Pade on the site. A more general search of the Internet turns up such phrases as "is the "best" approximation of a function by a rational function of given order" and "The unreasonable effectiveness of Pade approximation", which piqued my interest. Generally there are scholarly papers in the subject that whoosh right over my head, and very little at the "pop-maths" level, i.e. no videos by my go-to YouTube channels - numberphile/computerphile, 3blue1brown, mathologer. |
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In the absence of sources pitched at my level, this is the methodology I have developed to create this code. |
In the absence of sources pitched at my level, this is the methodology I have developed to create this code. |
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