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  2. Degree of a polynomial - Wikipedia

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    For polynomials in two or more variables, the degree of a term is the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term; the degree (sometimes called the total degree) of the polynomial is again the maximum of the degrees of all terms in the polynomial. For example, the polynomial x 2 y 2 + 3x 3 + 4y has degree 4, the same degree as the term x ...

  3. Polynomial - Wikipedia

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    Polynomials of degree one, two or three are respectively linear polynomials, quadratic polynomials and cubic polynomials. [8] For higher degrees, the specific names are not commonly used, although quartic polynomial (for degree four) and quintic polynomial (for degree five) are sometimes used. The names for the degrees may be applied to the ...

  4. Algebraic curve - Wikipedia

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    An algebraic curve in the Euclidean plane is the set of the points whose coordinates are the solutions of a bivariate polynomial equation p(x, y) = 0.This equation is often called the implicit equation of the curve, in contrast to the curves that are the graph of a function defining explicitly y as a function of x.

  5. Category:Polynomials - Wikipedia

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    Pidduck polynomials; Pincherle polynomials; Polylogarithmic function; Polynomial decomposition; Polynomial Diophantine equation; Polynomial evaluation; Polynomial expansion; Polynomial greatest common divisor; Polynomial identity testing; Polynomial interpolation; Polynomial long division; Polynomial matrix; Polynomial matrix spectral ...

  6. Algebraic variety - Wikipedia

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    The twisted cubic is a projective algebraic variety.. Algebraic varieties are the central objects of study in algebraic geometry, a sub-field of mathematics.Classically, an algebraic variety is defined as the set of solutions of a system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers.

  7. Orthogonal polynomials - Wikipedia

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    The most widely used orthogonal polynomials are the classical orthogonal polynomials, consisting of the Hermite polynomials, the Laguerre polynomials and the Jacobi polynomials. The Gegenbauer polynomials form the most important class of Jacobi polynomials; they include the Chebyshev polynomials, and the Legendre polynomials as special

  8. Order of a polynomial - Wikipedia

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    the multiplicative order, that is, the number of times the polynomial is divisible by some value; the order of the polynomial considered as a power series, that is, the degree of its non-zero term of lowest degree; or; the order of a spline, either the degree+1 of the polynomials defining the spline or the number of knot points used to ...

  9. Quadratic form - Wikipedia

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    More concretely, an n-ary quadratic form over a field K is a homogeneous polynomial of degree 2 in n variables with coefficients in K: (, …,) = = =,. This formula may be rewritten using matrices: let x be the column vector with components x 1 , ..., x n and A = ( a ij ) be the n × n matrix over K whose entries are the coefficients of q .