We will discuss these two approximation methods today, and we'll save approximation with higher degree polynomials for Calculus 2.\n\nOf course, it's kind of silly to do linear or quadratic ...

A python implementation of the algorithm used to generate optimal piecewise linear approximations of convex functions proposed by Imamoto and Tang [1]. The algorithm uses an iterative search to find ...

In this paper, we propose a method for finding the best piecewise linearization of nonlinear functions. For this aim, we try to obtain the best approximation of a nonlinear function as a piecewise ...

Abstract: Various analytic procedures have been proposed for minimum integral-square-error approximation of prescribed linear systems; however, they often involve ...

Abstract: The piecewise-linear (PWL) approximation technique developed by Julia/spl acute/n et al. in the past few years is applied to find approximate models of dynamical systems dependent on given ...

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 223 (Oct., 1976), pp. 103-131 (29 pages) This paper demonstrates a Remez exchange algorithm applicable to approximation of real-valued ...

The area \(A\) of a square of side length \(s\) is \(A=s^2\text{.}\) Suppose \(s\) increases by an amount \(\Delta s=ds\text{.}\) Draw a square and then illustrate ...