If I have a function f (x) = y, I don’t know the form, and if I have a long list of pairs of x and y values (potentially thousands of them), is there a program / package / library that will generate potential forms f (x)?
Obviously, there is a lot of ambiguity for the possible forms of any f (x), so something that gives many non-trivial unique answers (in abbreviated terms) would be ideal, but something that could give at least one answer would be good .If x and y are obtained from observational data (i.e., experimental results), are there programs that can create approximate forms f (x)? On the other hand, if you know in advance that there is a completely deterministic connection between x and y (as with the input and output of the pseudo random number generator), are there programs that can create exact forms f (x)?
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