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minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoCouldn’t you combine a lot of like terms as you went along, though? A polynomial of the order x26 would only have 27 terms.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoHuh, I’m so used to polynomials being in the form ax^2 + bx + c that I never considered that every letter might be a variable.
minus-square💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago because each coefficient There’s only 1 coefficient - in this case it’s (a-x) - the rest are just factors. they’re not constants They could be - we haven’t been given that information.
minus-square💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago 33,554,432 terms Actually it would be that many factors. The whole thing is a single Term.
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Couldn’t you combine a lot of like terms as you went along, though? A polynomial of the order x26 would only have 27 terms.
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Huh, I’m so used to polynomials being in the form ax^2 + bx + c that I never considered that every letter might be a variable.
There’s only 1 coefficient - in this case it’s (a-x) - the rest are just factors.
They could be - we haven’t been given that information.
Actually it would be that many factors. The whole thing is a single Term.