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Runge's phenomenon

Runge's phenomenon proper noun: a problem of oscillation at the edges of an interval that occurs when using polynomial interpolation with polynomials of high degree over a set of equispaced interpolation points.

Proper noun

Runge's phenomenon

  1. A problem of oscillation at the edges of an interval that occurs when using polynomial interpolation with polynomials of high degree over a set of equispaced interpolation points.

Origin of Runge's phenomenon

Discovered by Carl David Tolmé Runge (1901).

Questions about Runge's phenomenon

What does Runge's phenomenon mean?
Runge's phenomenon means a problem of oscillation at the edges of an interval that occurs when using polynomial interpolation with polynomials of high degree over a set of equispaced interpolation points.
What part of speech is Runge's phenomenon?
Runge's phenomenon is a proper noun.

Words near Runge's phenomenon in the dictionary

  1. rung the welkins
  2. rung through
  3. rung true
  4. rung up
  5. rung up the curtain
  6. Runge's phenomenon
  7. Runge's theorem
  8. Runge-Kutta method
  9. Runge-Kutta methods
  10. runged
  11. runghead

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