From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 27 0:38:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD5E37B766 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 00:38:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11221; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:08:12 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000427022854.A222@whizkidtech.net> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:08:11 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: RE: Fourth degree Cc: chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27-Apr-00 G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > But what's the name of fourth degree polynomials? They are called quartics. > P.S. While I'm asking... Is there some kind of general rule for this? > So I don't have to ask the name of fifth, sixth, etc, degree polynomials > next. After four you usually say N order polynomial :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message