From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 27 16:10:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42CA037BB5A for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA42766; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 01:10:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 01:10:17 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Brett Glass Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fourth degree In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000427165720.045ccbd0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Q. what is the best list to post a question about math, computer architecture or the similar to? A. -chat. On sci.mat, nobody will notice it among all the Nathael the Great and other 0.9999... != 1 and similar threads, and on comp.arch they will think it is homework and post ony humourous prank answers that suggest you go to double-decker busses in your system but that you should beware of non-double-decker compatible bridges 8-) On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message