Polynomial interpolation - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial_interpolationPolynomials can be used to approximate complicated curves, for example, the shapes of letters in typography, given a few points. A relevant application is the evaluation of the natural logarithm and trigonometric functions: pick a few known data points, create a lookup table, and interpolate between those data points. This results in significantly faster computations. Polynomial interpolation also forms the basis for algorithms in numerical quadrature and numerical ordinary differential equat…
CALCULLA - Least squares method calculator: polynomial ...
https://calculla.com/polynomial_regressionFor polynomial degrees greater than one (n>1), polynomial regression becomes an example of nonlinear regression i.e. by function other than linear function. Using the least squares method, we can adjust polynomial coefficients { a 0 , a 1 , … , a n } \{a_0, a_1, \dots, a_n\} { a 0 , a 1 , … , a n } so that the resulting polynomial fits best to the measured data.