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Extension to compute the divided difference of a polynomial

Horner's method can be modified to compute the dividing difference, . Given the polynomial (as before)

proceed as follows[1]

At completion, we have and . This computation of the divided difference is subject to much less round-off error than evaluating and separately, particularly when . Substituting in this method gives , the derivative of .

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