Reverse Engineer Formula

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Published on 2010-06-16T16:49:29Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 16:53 UTC
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Are there any free programs or web services for reverse engineering a formula given a set of inputs and outputs?

Consider if had 3 columns of data. The first two numbers are inputs, and the last one is an output: 3,4,7 1,4,5 4,2,6

The outputs could be produced with simply a+b, but there could be many formulas that would give the same result of course. I am talking about data without any error or deviation, and I think the formula would only need basic operations(divide, multiply, add, sutbract) and possibly use one of floor/ceiling/round.

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