Numerical Methods for the STEM Undergraduate
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This is a problem I asked in the first examination of my Numerical Methods course in Spring 2009. The question is that if one gives you an approximate value of the derivative of a function at a certain point using the central divided difference formula for two different step sizes, would you be able to find a better estimate of the derivative?
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