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Horner's Rule

  Horner's rule is the factorization

of a polynomial. It reduces the computation to n multiplications and n additions.

The rule can be generalized, e.g. to a finite series

orthogonal polynomials pk=pk(x). Using the recurrence relation

one obtains

with



Rudolf K. Bock, 7 April 1998