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Comment by constantcrying

No. All the textbooks know that polynomials of high degree are numerically dangerous and you need to be careful when handling them.

The articles examples only work because the interval 0 to 1 (or -1 to 1) were chosen. For whatever reason the author does not point that out or even acknowledges the fact that had he chosen a larger interval the limitations of floating point arithmetic would have ruined the argument he was trying to make.

10^100 is a very large number and numerically difficult to treat. For whatever reason the author pretends this is not a valid reason to be cautious about high degree polynomials.

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