Re: Function naming

From: Stephen J. Herschkorn (sjherschko_at_netscape.net)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:22:50 -0500

Darius Blaszijk wrote:

>Thank you all for the help. I'm surprised however that I can call this
>function group as I described polynomials. I have "some" knowledge of math,
>but I was always under the impression that a polynome was defined as a one
>variable function, and that these were merely a special case of the
>multivariable case. "Probably has to do with my understanding ;-)"
>
>
>
>>>I'm doing some study on a perticular type of functions (in my spare time
>>>just for fun). The problem is however that I don't know how these
>>>
>>>
>functions
>
>
>>>are called in English. Could someone provide me with the correct english
>>>term and point me perhaps to some more info on this topic.
>>>The functions are of the form;
>>>
>>>y = c0 + c1x1 + c2x2 + c3x1x2 + c4x1^2 + c5x2^2
>>>
>>>This function has two input variables and has an order of two. The
>>>
>>>
>number of
>
>
>>>variables and order can vary accordingly ofcourse. Is there a general
>>>
>>>
>term
>
>
>>>for this kind of functions?
>>>
>>>

To be more specific, I would call it a bivariate quadratic function. 

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Stephen J. Herschkorn                        sjherschko@netscape.net