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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-interdisciplinary-mathematics</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-012X</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0502</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JIM-1860</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>A general solution for a special tri-diagonal linear system</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Charnsethikul</surname>
            <given-names>Peerayuth</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Industrial Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, 10900, Thailand</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Nuntanart</surname>
            <given-names>Chusana</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Industrial Engineering, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, 10900, Thailand</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Witthayapraphakorn</surname>
            <given-names>Aphisak</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering University of Phayao, Phayao, 56000, Thailand</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>27</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>601</fpage>
      <lpage>617</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>07</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>The tri-diagonal linear system with coefficients of (–1, 2, –1) along the bandwidth and the transposed vector of (1k, 2k, …., nk) as the right hand sides is solved in a general form linking with the classical Faulhaber’s Formula. We derive the general solution for any k and conduct computational experiments compared with using the direct Thomas’s algorithm. The result shows that in the case where k = 1 to 16, the general solution clearly performs more efficiently. For cases where k = 1, the results also indicate that as the problem size continuously expands, there will always be a point at which the general solution processes faster.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Faulhaber’s formula</kwd>
        <kwd>Tri-diagonal linear system</kwd>
        <kwd>Thomas’s algorithm</kwd>
        <kwd>General solution</kwd>
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