How many times during your educational career have you thought to yourself, “When on earth am I ever -- and I mean ever -- going to use this?” I would venture to guess we’ve all thought this a time or ...

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Complexity theory is a fundamental branch of theoretical computer science that categorises computational problems according to their inherent difficulty and the resources required to solve them. At ...

Binary linear recurrent sequences with the primitive characteristic polynomial are used as a good approximation of the random sequence. A known algorithm is implemented in a program for generation of ...

A polynomial is a chain of algebraic terms with various values of powers. There are some words and phrases to look out for when you're dealing with polynomials: \(6{x^5} - 3{x^2} + 7\) is a polynomial ...

Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 32, No. 3 (JULY 2019), pp. 691-707 (17 pages) Tigran Ananyan and Melvin Hochster, Small subalgebras of polynomial rings and Stillman’s conjecture, ...

If \((x \pm h)\) is a factor of a polynomial, then the remainder will be zero. Conversely, if the remainder is zero, then \((x \pm h)\) is a factor. Often ...