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You can break it by choosing two points on the same virtical line, or picking too many points.
Say you have points And say you want to find a quadratic which goes through these points.
This is the same as the system of equations
Expressed in linear algebra this becomes
Then you can use elimination to solve , as I've done here.
Elimination is , Realistically you should use with Lagrange polynomials wiki, video. (also related to how is a Vandermonde matrix).
But I like the generality of elimination :D
There are also much more sophisticated techniques, like the Fast Fourier transform which (I think?) is . I don't understand it yet though.