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From: Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>
To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Subject: RE: Fourth degree
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> 
> On 27-Apr-00 G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> >  But what's the name of fourth degree polynomials?
> 
> They are called quartics.

Quartics or Quadratics? 
I can't remember which...

> >  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
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