Problem 42692. Polynomial Evaluation
Create a routine that takes a list of coefficients of a polynomial in order of increasing powers of x; together with a value of x to compute its value at, and return the value of the polynomial at that value using Horner's Rule.
For example: A fast scheme for evaluating a polynomial such as:
when
is to arrange the computation as follows:
Use of polyval and regexp is prohibited
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Jihye Sofia Seo
on 9 Feb 2017
seems like a really fun and challenging problem!
Rafael S.T. Vieira
on 17 Sep 2020
Maybe the author should prohibit the use of polyval, str2num and regexp for this problem.
Subhashini Neelamegam
on 18 Oct 2021
Challenging Problem
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