Charles Babbage's difference engine, an early mechanical calculator, was designed to use this algorithm in its operation. Divided differences is a recursive...

Newton's divided differences interpolation polynomial because the coefficients of the polynomial are calculated using Newton's divided differences method...

first created by Charles Babbage. The name difference engine is derived from the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions...

finite differences. In numerical analysis, finite differences are widely used for approximating derivatives, and the term "finite difference" is often...

The Difference Quotient Archived 2005-09-12 at the Wayback Machine University of Birmingham: Dirk Hermans—Divided Differences Mathworld: Divided Difference...

In mathematical analysis, the mean value theorem for divided differences generalizes the mean value theorem to higher derivatives. For any n + 1 pairwise...

amplification of existing differences; The use of these differences for the benefit of the colonial empire; and The carry over of these differences into the post-colonial...

interpolation method, in that both can be derived from the calculation of divided differences. However, there are other methods for computing a Hermite interpolating...

potential of electrons (Fermi level) divided by the electron charge and commonly referred to as the voltage difference, while the pure unadjusted electrostatic...

and 7 were found. Horner's method can be modified to compute the divided difference ( p ( y ) − p ( x ) ) / ( y − x ) . {\displaystyle (p(y)-p(x))/(y-x)...