Given numbers x 0 , x 1 , . . . ,x n- 1 , prove that

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Given numbers x0, x1, . . . ,xn-1, prove that the determinant of the Vandermonde matrix

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is

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Multiply column i by – x0 and add it to column i + 1 for i = n – 1, n – 2, . . . ,1, and then use induction.

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Introduction to Algorithms

ISBN: 978-0262033848

3rd edition

Authors: Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest

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