Re: How to find a formula from a list of numbers

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From: Adam Nielsen
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:05

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> Oh bother.  I failed to appreciate the fact that -1.002677224 is 
> probably close enough to -1 for this problem, so the log-log power 
> relationship between B and A could be a simple reciprocal.  And indeed, 
> here's an exact formula for the non-starred values that does not use 
> logs:
>     B = int(1406315/A)
> 
> With this formula, A=128 gives B=10986, and A=144 gives B=9766.

Excellent, that's perfect!  Thanks for all your help!

Cheers,
Adam.

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