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Also, you can fit just about anything to two points.

• JBReefer 9y ago
  Hey, that's an interesting question: is there anything you can't fit to two arbitrary points? Seems like with compression, x/y offsets, and rotation you could fit just about curve.
  • vivekseth 9y ago
    A single point
  • ska 9y ago
    In general on the plane, you can fit a polynomial of n-1 degree exactly to n distinct points (i.e. it will pass through those points) This least to an easy way to demonstrate the evils of over-fitting :)
    • connorcpu 9y ago
      And there is exactly 1 polynomial of degree n-1 that will match n points ;)
      • deleted 9y ago
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      • ska 9y ago
        It's true! I somehow missed a "unique" there, too late to edit.