# Trigonometric interpolation: triginterp

### 5.27.34 Trigonometric interpolation: triginterp

The triginterp command computes a trigonometric polynomial which interpolates given data.

- triginterp takes four arguments:
  - L, a list of numbers.
  - a, a number (the beginning of an interval).
  - b, a number (the end of the interval).
  - x, the name of a variable.
  The last three arguments can also be given as x=a..b.
- triginterp(L,a,b,x) or triginterp(L,x=a..b) returns the trigonometric polynomial that interpolates data given in the list L. It is assumed that the list L contains ordinate components of the points with equidistant abscissa components between a and b such that the first element of L corresponds to a and the last element to b.

#### Example.

For example, y may be a list of experimental measurements of some quantity taken in regular intervals, with the first observation at time t=a and the last observation at time t=b. The resulting trigonometric polynomial has period

T=

n (b−a)
n−1

,

where n is the number of observations (n=size(y)). As a specific example, assume that the following data is obtained by measuring the temperature every three hours:

hour of the day | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21
temperature (∘C) | 11 | 10 | 17 | 24 | 32 | 26 | 23 | 19

Furthermore, assume that an estimate of the temperature at 13:45 is required. To obtain a trigonometric interpolation of the data:
Input:

tp:=triginterp([11,10,17,24,32,26,23,19],x=0..21)

Output:

81
4

+

1
8

⎛
⎜
⎝

−21

√

2

−42

⎞
⎟
⎠

cos

⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝

1
12

π x

⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠

+

1
8

⎛
⎜
⎝

−11

√

2

−12

⎞
⎟
⎠

sin

⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝

1
12

π x

⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠

+

3
4

cos

⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝

1
6

π x

⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠

−

7
4

sin

⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝

1
6

π x

⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠

+

1
8

⎛
⎜
⎝

21

√

2

−42

⎞
⎟
⎠

cos

⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝

1
4

π x

⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠

+

1
8

⎛
⎜
⎝

−11

√

2

+12

⎞
⎟
⎠

sin

⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝

1
4

π x

⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠

+

cos

⎛
⎜
⎜
⎝

1
3

π x

⎞
⎟
⎟
⎠

2

Now a temperature at 13:45 hrs can be approximated with the value of tp for x=13.75.
Input:

tp | x=13.75

Output:

29.4863181684

If one of the input parameters is inexact, the result will be inexact too. For example:
Input:

Digits:=3:;
triginterp([11,10,17,24,32,26,23,19],x=0..21.0)

Output:

20.2−8.96 cos | ⎛ ⎝ | 0.262 x | ⎞ ⎠ | −3.44 sin | ⎛ ⎝ | 0.262 x | ⎞ ⎠ | + 0.75 cos | ⎛ ⎝ | 0.524 x | ⎞ ⎠ | −

1.75 sin | ⎛ ⎝ | 0.524 x | ⎞ ⎠ | −1.54 cos | ⎛ ⎝ | 0.785 x | ⎞ ⎠ | − 0.445 sin | ⎛ ⎝ | 0.785 x | ⎞ ⎠ | + 0.5 cos | ⎛ ⎝ | 1.05 x | ⎞ ⎠