A polynomial is a chain of algebraic terms with various values of powers. There are some words and phrases to look out for when you're dealing with polynomials: \(6{x^5} - 3{x^2} + 7\) is a polynomial ...

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This paper discusses some new integer factoring methods involving cyclotomic polynomials. There are several polynomials $f(X)$ known to have the following property ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 45, No. 171 (Jul., 1985), pp. 251-261 (11 pages) We present a probabilistic algorithm that finds the irreducible factors of a bivariate polynomial with coefficients ...

Quadratic equations are polynomials, meaning strings of math terms. An expression like “x + 4” is a polynomial. They can have ...