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Date:      Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:57:41 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fourth degree
Message-ID:  <4.3.1.2.20000427165720.045ccbd0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20000427022854.A222@whizkidtech.net>

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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



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