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Vector Spaces & Bases · Challenge problem

In P2P_2 let B={1,x,x2}B = \{1, x, x^2\} and let L={L0,L1,L2}L = \{L_0, L_1, L_2\} be the Lagrange basis for the nodes 0,1,20, 1, 2: each LiL_i has degree at most 22, Li(i)=1L_i(i) = 1, and Li(j)=0L_i(j) = 0 for the other two nodes jj. Find the sum of all nine entries of the change-of-basis matrix PL←BP_{L\leftarrow B}, whose columns are the LL-coordinate vectors of 11, xx and x2x^2.