In numerical analysis, Wilkinson's polynomial is a specific polynomial which was used by James H. Wilkinson in 1963 to illustrate a difficulty when finding the roots of a polynomial: the location of the roots can be very sensitive to perturbations in the coefficients of the polynomial. The polynomial is w ( x ) = ∏ i = 1 20 ( x − i ) = ( x − 1 ) ( x − 2 ) ⋯ ( x − 20 ) .
In numerical analysis, Wilkinson's polynomial is a specific polynomial which was used by James H. Wilkinson in 1963 to illustrate a difficulty when finding the roots of a polynomial: the location of the roots can be very sensitive to perturbations in the coefficients of the polynomial. The polynomial is w ( x ) = ∏ i = 1 20 ( x − i ) = ( x − 1 ) ( x − 2 ) ⋯ ( x − 20 ) .
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