From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 27 3:15:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58DD037B51F for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 03:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA29651; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:15:22 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:15:22 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fourth degree In-Reply-To: <20000427022854.A222@whizkidtech.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > This is an embarassing question to ask publicly, but I have no one > to ask locally, especially not at 2:30 am: > > I know that functions involving second degree polynomials are called > quadratic, those involving third degree are cubic... > > But what's the name of fourth degree polynomials? > quartics. > Adam > > 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. general rule for them goes roughly like taking the appropriate latin numeral 8-) now, unless you really want to, just call then 6th, 7th, etc. order polynomial and skip the names. nobody cares all that much about pentic (sp?) polynomials. > -- > Don't send me spam, I'm a vegetarian > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message