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by btilly 2008 days ago
There is some added math bit that gets added on top to make the polynomial less easy to guess, but the concept remains the same.

The added math bit is that you calculate the polynomials modulo some prime number.

That means that you're doing integer arithmetic, but with even one missing point you've gained no information about the secret. (As long as your points were actually generated with good randomness that is...)