User talk:Fivemack

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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Bond insurance

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[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Pierpont_log_distribution.png

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[edit] Cubic Hermite spline

I have done some major edits to cubic Hermite spline, that ended up leaving your recent contribution on the CINTx function sligthly out of context. Would you mind helping out on this issue? I am not quite sure yet how your function arises (though I have my guesses that I haven't had time to prove yet), that is crucial in order to put it into the correct context. Cheers. --Berland (talk) 20:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

CINT really lives under 'cubic interpolation' rather than 'cubic Hermite spline' - it's the obvious way of doing one-dimensional cubic interpolation if you have values on an even grid and don't care about derivatives. The right answer in a longer run, I think, is to have cubic interpolation be an article in its own right rather than a redirect, pull across CINT_x to that article, and then have a paragraph about why you really want to care about derivatives and a link to cubic Hermite spline. Feel free to do that now if you want, or I'll have a look later - it's 1:15am here and I'm not awake enough to move large chunks of article around Fivemack (talk) 01:12, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

What I wonder, is that your formula will occur from possibly the finite difference formula stated on that page, given a regular grid, and scaled to the unit interval. If that is the case, it belongs under cubic Hermite spline. Anyway, I don't think we should separate 'cubic interpolation' from 'cubic hermite spline', because of the uniqueness theorem on the unit interval. Your formula has to correspond to a specific choice of tangents. --Berland (talk) 06:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
PS: You may use the one or more 'colons' to indent your paragraphs to ease reading on talk pages. Cheers.