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[Alexandr Malusek <Alexandr.Malusek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Donnelly <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> No, he's already done the coursework, which involved plotting actual
> results by hand - he's in year 4 secondary, so least squares would
> be a bit beyond them!

He can add one or more artificial points and handle the problem as an
interpolation.  He can place them outside the visible axis range to
make them "invisible".

> He can just extrapolate the curve manually on the graph paper, but I
> thought there might be something that could do that more neatly.

There are many software packages which can fit a curve (based on an
appropriate mathematical model) to a set of data points
(http://root.cern.ch/, http://www.r-project.org/, ...) but they are
written for scientists or statisticians ...

--
A.M.

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