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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:22:32 -0400
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To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
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Subject: Re: Fourth degree
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"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
> 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
I don't know about sixth and so on, but a polynomial to the fifth degree
is quintic.


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