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bonosmate
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cubic spline/linear interpolation

October 14th, 2011, 6:51 am

Mathematically is the midpoint between 2 points the same if i were to use liner interpolation or cubic spline. Sorry just to lazy to think about this on a Friday!!
 
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cubic spline/linear interpolation

October 14th, 2011, 8:29 am

No
 
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cubic spline/linear interpolation

October 14th, 2011, 10:45 am

error of interpolation edit: spline is higher-order for fine, evenly-spaced data.
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cubic spline/linear interpolation

October 14th, 2011, 2:41 pm

very helpful Cuchulainn- thank you