From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 28 6:21:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bigphred.greycat.com (bigphred.greycat.com [207.173.133.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90AD37B6FD for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 06:21:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dann@bigphred.greycat.com) Received: (from dann@localhost) by bigphred.greycat.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA05237; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 06:21:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dann) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 06:21:50 -0700 From: Dann Lunsford To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fourth degree Message-ID: <20000428062149.A5196@greycat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from oogali@intranova.net on Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 08:04:38AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 08:04:38AM -0400, Omachonu Ogali 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... Definitely quartics. Quadratics are of degree 2. Gee, this thread is making me nostalgic; think I'll dig out my Master's thesis and see if I still understand it :-). Mmmmmm... Galois fields... tasty stuff... -- Dann Lunsford The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil dann@greycat.com is that men of good will do nothing. -- Cicero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message