Exercise · ZW-RUNGE-PHENOMENON-001 · ★☆☆ Basic
What does the Runge phenomenon describe?
Choose one option.
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- B. Large oscillations near the endpoints when interpolating with equally spaced nodes of high degree
Explanation
With equally spaced nodes of high degree, large oscillations appear near the endpoints of the interval. The other options claim uniform improvement or guaranteed convergence, which do not occur with that distribution.
Review the concept: Runge phenomenon
The Runge phenomenon is the oscillatory, divergent behavior of polynomial interpolation errors at high degree when the nodes are equally spaced on an interval.
\[f(x)=\frac{1}{1+25x^2},\quad x\in[-1,1]\]
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