Re: Is there a name for these equations?


Karl wrote:
> José Carlos Santos wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there a name for the polynomial equations of the form
> >
> > x^4 + ax^2 + b = 0 ?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Jose Carlos Santos
>
> "Biquadratic equations", see:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartic_equation#Biquadratic_equations

Maybe, but if someone says to me 'biquadratic' what I think first is
not something like the above, but rather something like

Ax^2 + Bxy + Cy^2 + Dx + Ey + F = 0

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Larry Lard
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