Problem 42840. Coefficients and vertex of a parabola given 3 points

Created by Roche de Guzman

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Peng Liu on 29 Apr 2016

It would be better to add more test cases to reinforce the test suite.

Roche de Guzman on 1 May 2016

Thanks I just updated!

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James on 6 May 2016

Using without the "round" fudge on the polyfit function should work, but gives errors on the order of 1e-14. Round only works because all the coefficients in your test suite are integers.

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