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Fitting to polynomial
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Plot noisy data and their polynomial fit

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    import numpy as np
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    np.random.seed(12)

    x = np.linspace(0, 1, 20)
    y = np.cos(x) + 0.3*np.random.rand(20)
    p = np.poly1d(np.polyfit(x, y, 3))

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