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Horner's Method for Evaluating and Deflating PolynomialsHorner's Method for Evaluating and Deflating Polynomials

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Horner's method is a standard minimum arithmetic method for evaluating and deflating polynomials. It can also efficiently evaluate various order derivatives of a polynomial, therefore is often used as part of Newton's method. This note tries to develop the various techniques called Horner's method, nested evaluation, and synthetic division in a common framework using a recursive structure and difference equations. There is a similarity to GOERtzel's algorithm for the DFT, Z-transform inversion by division, and Pade's and Prony's methods. This approach also allows a straight forward explanation of "stability" or numerical errors of the algorithms. Matlab implementations are given. This note came from the work of the "Polynomial Club" at Rice: Burrus, Fox, Sitton, and Treitel.

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