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  2. Asymptote - Wikipedia

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    The asymptote is the polynomial term after dividing the numerator and denominator. This phenomenon occurs because when dividing the fraction, there will be a linear term, and a remainder. This phenomenon occurs because when dividing the fraction, there will be a linear term, and a remainder.

  3. Horner's method - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and computer science, Horner's method (or Horner's scheme) is an algorithm for polynomial evaluation.Although named after William George Horner, this method is much older, as it has been attributed to Joseph-Louis Lagrange by Horner himself, and can be traced back many hundreds of years to Chinese and Persian mathematicians. [1]

  4. Sigmoid function - Wikipedia

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    A sigmoid function is constrained by a pair of horizontal asymptotes as . A sigmoid function is convex for values less than a particular point, and it is concave for values greater than that point: in many of the examples here, that point is 0.

  5. Asymptotic analysis - Wikipedia

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    An asymptote is a straight line that a curve approaches but never meets or crosses. Informally, one may speak of the curve meeting the asymptote "at infinity" although this is not a precise definition. In the equation =, y becomes arbitrarily small in magnitude as x increases.

  6. Critical point (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Thus for a polynomial function with only real roots, all critical points are real and are between the greatest and smallest roots. Sendov's conjecture asserts that, if all of a function's roots lie in the unit disk in the complex plane, then there is at least one critical point within unit distance of any given root.

  7. Polynomial - Wikipedia

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    Polynomials of degree one, two or three are respectively linear polynomials, quadratic polynomials and cubic polynomials. [8] For higher degrees, the specific names are not commonly used, although quartic polynomial (for degree four) and quintic polynomial (for degree five) are sometimes used. The names for the degrees may be applied to the ...

  8. Asymptotology - Wikipedia

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    The field of asymptotics is normally first encountered in school geometry with the introduction of the asymptote, a line to which a curve tends at infinity.The word Ασύμπτωτος (asymptotos) in Greek means non-coincident and puts strong emphasis on the point that approximation does not turn into coincidence.

  9. Glossary of calculus - Wikipedia

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    Rules and identities; Sum; ... an asymptote of a curve is a line such that the distance between the curve and the line approaches zero ... a quadratic polynomial, ...