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answered 9 years ago
The question is not clear to me, why not simply do:
sage: Y = [1,2,4,3,7,2,1] sage: h = 0.1 sage: [(Y[k+1]-Y[k-1])/h for k in range(1,len(Y)-1)] [30.0000000000000, 10.0000000000000, 30.0000000000000, -10.0000000000000, -60.0000000000000]