I appear to have made the moderators close the other thread [and it was much of a duplicate, so I think the moderators did the right thing].
If you had actually produced a more concrete question, such as "What does degree of a polynomial mean", which I think was one of your primary question, then I would think:
1. The thread would still be open.
2. You would more quickly have got to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_of_a_polynomial
Of course, it would have been less typing [even if you Copy'n'pasted the actual polynomial task text itself] to type in "degree polynomial" in Google, and get to the link I posted above, which is the first link when you get it back from google.
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Mats
