Abstract
The function
which we considered several times in the preceding section, is a polynomial of the second degree. In general, polynomials have the form,
The degree of the polynomial is called n, if the coefficient a is different from zero.
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Lamprecht, G. (1983). Polynomials, Vectors, and Matrices. In: Introduction to SIMULA 67. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-89739-8_4
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