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Let K be a field. Every reader of this book will have written expressions like

$${a_n}{t^n} + {a^{n - 1}} + ... + {a_{0,}}$$

where a 0,...,a n are real or complex numbers. We could also take these to be elements of K. But what does “t” mean? Or powers of “t” like t, t 2,...,t n?

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    Serge Lang

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Lang, S. (1990). Polynomials. In: Undergraduate Algebra. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6898-5_4

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