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Memory considerations

This expression leaves us however with some terms with negative indices, for example x(-1) and x(-2) which may not be defined. Our vector \boldsymbol{x} has components x(0) , x(1) , x(2) and x(3) .

The index j for \boldsymbol{x} runs from j=0 to j=3 since \boldsymbol{x} is meant to represent a third-order polynomial.

Furthermore, the index i runs from i=0 to i=5 since \boldsymbol{y} contains the coefficients of a fifth-order polynomial. When i=5 we may also have values of x(4) and x(5) which are not defined.