Finite difference

Finite difference - discrete analog of a derivative. Article “Finite difference” in English Wikipedia has 46 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 27 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.42 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Finite difference” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Finite difference”, its content was written by 179 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 388 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 523 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1723 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4644 in April 2002
• Global: #5568 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #24177 in April 2015
• Global: #39978 in April 2015

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Finite difference		45.9862
2	Greek (el) Πεπερασμένη διαφορά		35.3602
3	Chinese (zh) 差分		34.2437
4	Russian (ru) Конечные разности		29.1101
5	Persian (fa) تفاضل محدود		26.478
6	Catalan (ca) Diferència finita		23.956
7	Serbian (sr) Коначна разлика		21.2208
8	Japanese (ja) 有限差分		19.5322
9	French (fr) Différence finie		16.436
10	Portuguese (pt) Operador de diferença		16.2209

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Finite difference" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Finite difference		4 334 079
2	Spanish (es) Diferencia finita		402 921
3	Chinese (zh) 差分		310 134
4	Russian (ru) Конечные разности		231 982
5	French (fr) Différence finie		206 953
6	Japanese (ja) 有限差分		76 289
7	Italian (it) Differenza finita		59 597
8	Polish (pl) Rachunek różnicowy		58 667
9	Persian (fa) تفاضل محدود		29 857
10	Portuguese (pt) Operador de diferença		27 581

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Finite difference" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Finite difference		12 555
2	Chinese (zh) 差分		920
3	Spanish (es) Diferencia finita		566
4	French (fr) Différence finie		526
5	Russian (ru) Конечные разности		498
6	Japanese (ja) 有限差分		364
7	Polish (pl) Rachunek różnicowy		248
8	Italian (it) Differenza finita		125
9	Korean (ko) 유한차분		114
10	Portuguese (pt) Operador de diferença		76

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Finite difference" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Finite difference		179
2	Russian (ru) Конечные разности		27
3	Chinese (zh) 差分		24
4	Spanish (es) Diferencia finita		22
5	Italian (it) Differenza finita		18
6	French (fr) Différence finie		17
7	Polish (pl) Rachunek różnicowy		11
8	Serbian (sr) Коначна разлика		11
9	Arabic (ar) فرق محدود		10
10	Dutch (nl) Eindige differentie		10

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Finite difference" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Finite difference		3
2	Arabic (ar) فرق محدود		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Fərq operatoru		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Крайна разлика		0
5	Catalan (ca) Diferència finita		0
6	Greek (el) Πεπερασμένη διαφορά		0
7	Spanish (es) Diferencia finita		0
8	Persian (fa) تفاضل محدود		0
9	French (fr) Différence finie		0
10	Hindi (hi) परिमित अंतर		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Finite difference" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Finite difference		523
2	Arabic (ar) فرق محدود		201
3	Chinese (zh) 差分		192
4	Polish (pl) Rachunek różnicowy		130
5	Persian (fa) تفاضل محدود		125
6	Spanish (es) Diferencia finita		85
7	Japanese (ja) 有限差分		77
8	French (fr) Différence finie		76
9	Portuguese (pt) Operador de diferença		72
10	Russian (ru) Конечные разности		65

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فرق محدود
az	Azerbaijani Fərq operatoru
bg	Bulgarian Крайна разлика
ca	Catalan Diferència finita
el	Greek Πεπερασμένη διαφορά
en	English Finite difference
es	Spanish Diferencia finita
fa	Persian تفاضل محدود
fr	French Différence finie
hi	Hindi परिमित अंतर
hy	Armenian Վերջավոր տարբերությունների հաշիվ
it	Italian Differenza finita
ja	Japanese 有限差分
ko	Korean 유한차분
nl	Dutch Eindige differentie
pl	Polish Rachunek różnicowy
pt	Portuguese Operador de diferença
ru	Russian Конечные разности
sr	Serbian Коначна разлика
sv	Swedish Differensoperator
tr	Turkish Sonlu fark
uk	Ukrainian Скінченні різниці
zh	Chinese 差分

Best Rank

English: #24177 04.2015

Global: #39978 04.2015

Best Rank

English: #4644 04.2002

Global: #5568 04.2002

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