From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 27 7:43:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E0B37B9BF for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:43:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA48831; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:43:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:43:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor 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 Hi On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > 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? quartic > 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. quintic, hextic(?), heptic, octic, etc That's as much of a rule as I'll guess. :-) Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message