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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Ike Scribe Post! OMG! POLYNOMIALS!!!

Today in class we covered the amazingly interesting topic of POLYNOMIAL BASICS! YAY!
And here is a review of the material:

Polynomial
: "a number and variable combination consisting of one or more terms."

MONOMIAL: one term: 2X, 4, 950C
BINOMIAL: two terms: V+7, 234C-44
TRINOMIAL: three terms, 439+V+449430X

DEGREE- "Determined by the largest exponent in the Polynomial!"

So, " 3x^6 + X + 32Y^4 " would have the degree of six, because that is the largest exponent.
Simple!
However, the above polynomial [expression] is not written in the correct form. The correct form
would be to write each piece of the polynomial in greatest to smallest order, using their exponents as what to count. So, the above statement should be correctly written
" 3X^6 + 32Y^4 + X ".

{Naming polynomials BASED ON THEIR DEGREE!}
If the degree is ...
ZERO-"constant"
ONE-"linear"
TWO-"quadratic"
THREE-"cubic"
FOUR-"quartic"
FIVE-"quintic"
And if your polynomial has an expression greater than five, you simply refer to it as "polynomial of ____ degree."

The next scribe post can be... Jared. :)

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