On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:28:46 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <8crg0effb...@mid.individual.net>, Gregory Ewing wrote: > >> For example, the constant term of a polynomial is usually called term >> 0, not term 1. > > That is not some kind of ordinal numbering of the terms, that is the > power of the variable involved. > > And polynomials can have negative powers, too.
Not so. Polynomials, by definition, are limited to non-negative integer powers. You're thinking of a "polynomial quotient", otherwise known as a "rational function". http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Polynomial.html -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
