Numerical Differentiation - NPTEL
nptel.ac.in › content › storage2Remark 13.2.1 Numerical differentiation using Stirling's formula is found to be more accurate than that with the Newton's difference formulae. Also it is more convenient to use. Now higher derivatives can be found by successively differentiating the interpolating polynomials. Thus e.g. using ( 13.2.2 ), we get the second derivative at as.