Problem 970. Piecewise linear interpolation

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Elmar Zander on 23 Mar 2017

It seems someone messed up the test code: the defintion of x for the first test is now in the comment line and its impossible now to solve the problem (except cheating...)

Xiaoyi Chin on 18 Sep 2017

I think there is something wrong with the test.

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