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Oh right, silly me. Wow, my own vocabulary deserted me there, huh? Yeah I think generally "sextic" is the highest you see before people stop doing that, and t
by Sniffnoy 1y ago
Oh right, silly me. Wow, my own vocabulary deserted me there, huh?
Yeah I think generally "sextic" is the highest you see before people stop doing that, and that one's somewhat uncommon I'd say. ("Quintic" is actually fairly common, contrary to what I said earlier, oops.) The fact that seventh-degree would be "septic" might be one reason stop with the words at that point!
- gjm11 1y agoI'm pretty sure that more than half the times I've seen "quintic" are in one single context: talking about the fact that while you can solve polynomial equations of degree 1-4 by doing arithmetic and taking n'th roots, this stops being possible once you get as far as quintic equations. (The "insolubility of the quintic".)