Question

What similarities exist between the operations on polynomials and the operations on functions?

Answer 1

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A polynomial is specifically a function that resembles the example below: 4x5 + 3x3 - 6x2 + 7x0 It consists of a variable raised to integer exponents and multiplied by different coefficients, and has multiple elements - in the above example, four. A function is a more general term to describe anything whatsoever that it done to one or more variables. For instance: arctan(4e3x)