From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 27 16: 0:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D05A37BE79 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:00:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA27542; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:00:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000427165720.045ccbd0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:57:41 -0600 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Fourth degree In-Reply-To: <20000427022854.A222@whizkidtech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:28 AM 4/27/2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: >This is an embarassing question to ask publicly, but I have no one >to ask locally, especially not at 2:30 am: > >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. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message