VICTORY

fuzz@vaiojello:~/javastuff/physics/scans$ ls data > what
fuzz@vaiojello:~/javastuff/physics/scans$ java quadfit what
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:D

The resulting fits are an average of about 0.006 off from the original data points. A good sign, considering the original data has a resolution of exactly 0.01. If I'm feeling bored tonight, I may try to make the fit even better (Maybe a quartic fit, versus the present cubic fit).

Btw, the emoticon is actual output. I was too lazy to come up with real output messages.

I ultimately went with a combination of the matrix and the easy methods. I discovered that the easy method and the matrix method are identical after a certain point. The easy method was easier to solve afterwards (though lacking in decent notation) while the matrix method, I found, was easier to get to that point in the first place. The result... Some nicely fit data.

I didn't come up with a decent method to automatically find the entire list of the contents of the directory containing the datafiles, so I used as input a file containing the output from the "ls" command. It works well enough.

By the way, like every piece of programming I'm making from here on in, this program is available to anyone who wants it, although you'll need to make some personal alterations as many things are hardcoded in that wouldn't be in a more general purpose program. Just drop me a line! By the way, as a java program it's cross platform, so this includes YOU Windows readers!

Good night.