Question

how do you classify by degree and number of terms?

Answer 1

Are we talking about polynomials?

Answer 2

yeah

Answer 3

Ok, terms means how many things make up the statement.
So
x^2 + x + 2 = a 3 term polynomial because I have 3 terms. 3 statements together that make up the polynomial.

If I talk about order, we are referring to the highest exponent value.
So for example in
x^5 + x^2 -40,
5 is the largest exponent so the polynomial has an order of 5.

(The first polynomial in my examples has order of 2 and the second one has 3 terms)

Answer 4

what bout degrees

Answer 5

oops degrees= order. i called it order on accident, my bad.

Answer 6

i just looked it up to make sure... wikipedia has rationally explained my word change "The word degree has been favored for some decades in standard textbooks - but in some older books, the word order may be used instead."

Answer 7

so what is quartic, quantic, cubic, and quadratic, those are names for degrees

Answer 8

i think 5 is quartic

Answer 9

hmm i believe quartic is 4. (quarter)
cubic is 3
and quadratic
I don't believe quantic and quadratic refer to anything in particular but maybe someone else can help you out with that

Answer 10

so what is 5

Answer 11

is 5 quantic then

Answer 12

I'm not sure, I wanted to make sure via google and they don't give me anything ueful when I type in quantic and degrees