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  Interpolation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Interpolation is a specific case of curve fitting, in which the function must go exactly through the data points.
Furthermore, the interpolant is a polynomial and thus infinitely differentiable.
For instance, rational interpolation is interpolation by rational functions, and trigonometric interpolation is interpolation by trigonometric polynomials.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interpolation   (1047 words)

  
 ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
A volume in which the bolts were not trimmed to uniform size in binding, leaving the leaves to be separated by hand by the owner of the book, using a paper knife or similar instrument.
Also, a manuscript or typescript never published, either because it was not intended for publication or because the author was unable to find a publisher.
A descriptive term used in the antiquarian book trade for a rare book or manuscript unnoticed by collectors and bibliographers (usually for centuries), whose discovery is of sufficient importance to merit recording an account of its existence.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Cyprian of Carthage
Hartel's edition has taken the text from a manuscript which exhibits a revised version, but what Cyprian wrote can be fairly well restored from the manuscript cited in Hartel's notes as L. Another book of excerpts on martyrdom is entitled "Ad Fortunatum"; its text cannot be judged in any printed edition.
The combined version is the one which has been printed in man editions, and has played a large part in controversy with Protestants.
Every expression and thought in the passage can be paralleled from St. Cyprian's habitual language, and it seems to be now generally admitted that this alternative passage is an alteration made by the author himself when forwarding his work to the Roman confessors.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04583b.htm   (7586 words)

  
 S. H. Taqizadeh: Old Iranian Calendars
He has perhaps believed these days to be a stationary period, just as he considers the day and night equal in length in all the last five days of the year (in the same chapter).
This part of Afrin gahambar 3, 9-12, dealing with the length of the six seasons and the places of the festivals in the months is, according to Hertel (Die awestischen Jahrenszeitenfeste, Afrinagan, 3, p.
As it is said this part of Afrin, which in some manuscripts gives the dates of the days and months of the gahambars or season-festivals in the vihêjakîk year and months, is believed to be a later addition.
www.avesta.org /taqizad.htm   (16035 words)

  
 Arthurian Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The majority of the poems in the manuscript date from between the 8th- and the 11th-century and are implicitly attributed to the fictional persona of the all-knowing, semi-divine Taliesin (for this legendary Taliesin and his relationship to the historical Taliesin of the 6th-century, see Sir Ifor Williams
The triads were originally mnemonic devices devised by the 'guardians' of Welsh traditional material to facilitate the recall of this material by systematising it and associating three characters or episodes with one another on the basis of features common to all three.
With regards to our extant manuscripts, the contents of the 'Early Version' (NLW Peniarth 16) of this corpus can be considered pre-Galfridian in nature, whilst those triads found in the 'Later Version' (WB and RB) do show the influence of Geoffrey of Monmouth at several points but are not in the main derived from him.
www.arthuriana.co.uk /concepts/arthlit.htm   (10466 words)

  
 NAZIRENE  HOME  PAGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It is true that many interpolations were inserted into the scriptures by men who attempted to prove the validity of their beliefs.
We know today that interpolations were added to most of the early Christian writings to find support for this doctrine that had always been part of the Pagan world, but absent from Jewish and early Christian teachings.
The Church of the Roman Empire then used these interpolations in an attempt to bring their favorite doctrines which were of a Pagan origin into the new synthesized religion inaugurated by the Emperor Constantine.
nazirene.org /corruption.htm   (15557 words)

  
 Book of Protection, being a collection of charms. Translated by Hermann Gollancz
It is described at fair length in William Wright's Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, 1901.
This manuscript is finished in the blessed month Tammuz, on the 30th day thereof, in the year 2114 of the blessed Greeks.
This manuscript is finished at the hands of the feeble, sinning, wicked, impure, and infirm one, that is, the priest George, son of the deceased Zaia, of the blessed village Shibani.
www.esotericarchives.com /gollancz/protect.htm   (12920 words)

  
 Islam House - Muhammad A-Z   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Born 570 C.E. (Christian Era); died 633 C.E. The following is based on books, manuscripts, texts and actual eyewitness accounts, too numerous to mention herein, preserved in original form throughout the centuries by both Muslims and non-Muslims.
Muhammad, may Allah exalt his mention, or his followers never at any time claimed that he was a son of God or the God-incarnate or a man with divinity — but he always was and is even today considered as only a Messenger chosen by God.
Material may be used with the condition that no changes or omissions are made in the material, and material is not used out of context.
www.islamhouse.com /en/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=180   (2619 words)

  
 Sun Tzu on the Art of War
Dr. Giles was a leading sinologue at the time and an assistant in the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts in the British Museum.
The passage I have put in brackets is omitted in the T`U SHU, and may be an interpolation.
It was known, however to Chang Shou-chieh of the T`ang dynasty, and appears in the T`AI P`ING YU LAN.
www.dflock.co.uk /etexts/Sun%20Tzu/SunTzu.html   (19516 words)

  
 Ascension Of Truth And The Biblical Corruption Factor - The Ebionite Home Page
used inferior manuscripts (F.H.Scrivener, Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament).
"We certainly know of a greater number of interpolations and corruptions brought into the Scriptures by the Athanasians, and relating to the Doctrine of the Trinity, than in any other case whatsoever.
removed, when in fact these falsifications were often the most important verses of scripture, what remained was biblical manuscripts devoid of its original spiritual essence and keys.
ebionite.com /BibleCorruption.htm   (14785 words)

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