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Forman Acton’s book Numerical Methods that Work describes Chebyschev polynomials as cosine curves with a somewhat disturbed horizontal scale, but the vertical scale has not been touched. The relation between Chebyshev polynomials and cosines is Tn(cos θ) = cos(nθ). Some sources take this as the definition of Chebyshev polynomials. Other
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The convention in math for writing numbers in bases larger than 10 is to insert capital letters after 9, starting with A. So, for example, the digits in base 12 are 0, 1, 2, …, 9, A, and B. So if you’re familiar with math but not Linux, and you
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