Class LinearFit - What does the comment mean?

Leandro Caniglia caniglia at dm.uba.ar
Tue Nov 24 22:41:49 UTC 1998


>The comment for class LinearFit (a subclass of Path) says :
>
>"I represent a piece-wise linear approximation to a set of
>points in the plane."
>
>
>Is this a correct statement?

I think that the author was thinking about a linear interpolation problem.
In these problems you want the graph of a function, but you only have some
points of it. A linear interpolation is obtained joining the points with
segments.

Hope this helps
Leandro





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