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Marcus said:By disallowing the "mechanical" you are, of course, throwing out a massive chunk of everyday uses of polynomials. There is nothing of any use that you can engineer without them.
I have never seen one used in any mathematical formula, programming
Asking "what good are polynomials?" is like asking "what good are words?" You obviously use words and, if you do any mathematics at all, you obviously use polynomials. Obviously you don't use all possible polynomials but, then again, you obviously don't use all words either. Yet, for some reason, you don't wonder what good words are...Durakken said:Hrmmm...
Perhaps what I'm talking about that is referred to by polynomials around here is different than what it is you guys are talking about...
c = a + b <- if that's a polynomial then i use them a lot
but what I am referring to something that looks something like this...
(x3) (3+5) (rx)
and then you shuffle those things around somehow...
I don't see them often...like in nearly 3+ years so I don't recall exactly how they look.
nasher168 said:A Polly-no-meal is a parrot that refuses to eat.
No? Okay...
That is wrong. Polinomial are sums of monomials (special case a polinomial made of one monomial). A monomial is a natural power of x multiplied by a coeficient (i.e. constant; special cases of constants are 1 and 0).Gunboat Diplomat said:Basically polynomials are just a set of arithmetic operations on a variable.
Emphasis added for clarity.Master_Ghost_Knight said:That is wrong. Polinomial are sums of monomials (special case a polinomial made of one monomial). A monomial is a natural power of x multiplied by a coeficient (i.e. constant; special cases of constants are 1 and 0).Gunboat Diplomat said:Basically polynomials are just a set of arithmetic operations on a variable.
ln(x)+x^2, not a polinomial.
sin(x) not exactly a polinomial (depending of the way you want to see it)
No? I don't remember you, seriously.Gunboat Diplomat said:Haven't you seen my other posts in this forum?