
doi: 10.12723/mjs.3.2
.M Prenter defines a cubic Spline function in an interval [a, b] as a piecewise cubic polynomial which is twice continuously differentiable in the entire interval [a, b]. The smooth cubic spline functions fitting the given data are the most popular spline functions and when used for interpolation, they do not have the oscillatory behavior which characterized high-degree polynomials. The natural spline has been shown to be unique function possessing the minimum curvature property of all functions interpolating the data and having square integrable second derivative. In this sense, the natural cubic spline is the smoothest function which interpolates the data. Here Two-piece Natural Cubic Spline functions have been defined. An approximation with no indication of its accuracy is utterly valueless. Where an approximation is intended for the general use, one must , of course, go for the trouble of estimating the error as precisely as possible. In this section, an attempt has been made to derive closed form expressions for the error-functions in the case of Two-piece Spline Functions.
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