How to determine the values of the second derivatives f_{i} and f_{i+1} ? We use the continuity assumption of the first derivatives s'_{i-1}(x_i)= s'_i(x_i), and set x=x_i . Defining h_i=x_{i+1}-x_i we obtain finally the following expression h_{i-1}f_{i-1}+2(h_{i}+h_{i-1})f_i+h_if_{i+1}= \frac{6}{h_i}(y_{i+1}-y_i)-\frac{6}{h_{i-1}}(y_{i}-y_{i-1}), and introducing the shorthands u_i=2(h_{i}+h_{i-1}) , v_i=\frac{6}{h_i}(y_{i+1}-y_i)-\frac{6}{h_{i-1}}(y_{i}-y_{i-1}) , we can reformulate the problem as a set of linear equations to be solved through e.g., Gaussian elemination