Cubic Spline Interpolation Method for Calculating Y-Values in C

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In summary, cubic spline interpolation is a numerical method used to find trends in data. To use this method, one must have knowledge of the algorithm and programming skills in C language. The book "Numerical Analysis" by Richard L. Burden and J. Douglas Faires provides a pseudo-code algorithm for solving this type of problem. If one is unfamiliar with the method, it is suggested to research and gain understanding before attempting to program it.
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There is a 10 points data set:

x: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
y: 1 8 27 64 125 216 343 512 729 1000

calculate the y-value at x=2.5, 5.7 and 9.75 by using cubic spline interpolation method

(in C language)
 
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Okay, as a start what is the "cubic spline interpolation method"?

For that matter, what is a "cubic spline"?
 
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Cubic spline interpolation is one of numerical method to find trend of data (like regressive equation). For cubic spline interpolation, I don't know how to solve this problem in c language when we have 10 data points.
 
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Numerical Analysis by Richard L. Burden and J. Douglas Faires gives a pseudo-code algorithm on how to program such a problem. If you don't know how to do it for 10 data points than you don't know how to do it for any amount of data points. Since you haven't posted an attempted solution I suggest searching the web on what exactly cubic spline interpolation is. Or reading that section of the textbook I suggested in a library or a bookstore.

[Edit] The book edition I have is edition 8.
 
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