In mathematics, a polynomial is a mathematical expression consisting of indeterminates (also called variables) and coefficients, that involves only the...

Quasi-polynomial time algorithms are algorithms whose running time exhibits quasi-polynomial growth, a type of behavior that may be slower than polynomial time...

computer science In computational complexity theory, NP (nondeterministic polynomial time) is a complexity class used to classify decision problems. NP is...

In linear algebra, the characteristic polynomial of a square matrix is a polynomial which is invariant under matrix similarity and has the eigenvalues...

systems get a short check value attached, based on the remainder of a polynomial division of their contents. On retrieval, the calculation is repeated...

especially in the field of algebra, a polynomial ring or polynomial algebra is a ring formed from the set of polynomials in one or more indeterminates (traditionally...

The Chebyshev polynomials are two sequences of orthogonal polynomials related to the cosine and sine functions, notated as T n ( x ) {\displaystyle T_{n}(x)}...

Newton polynomial, named after its inventor Isaac Newton, is an interpolation polynomial for a given set of data points. The Newton polynomial is sometimes...

task and runs in polynomial time (as opposed to, say, exponential time), meaning the task completion time is bounded above by a polynomial function on the...

In statistics, polynomial regression is a form of regression analysis in which the relationship between the independent variable x and the dependent variable...

In mathematics, a homogeneous polynomial, sometimes called quantic in older texts, is a polynomial whose nonzero terms all have the same degree. For example...

an irreducible polynomial is, roughly speaking, a polynomial that cannot be factored into the product of two non-constant polynomials. The property of...

precisely, it is a polynomial function of the coefficients of the original polynomial. The discriminant is widely used in polynomial factoring, number...

subfields of numerical analysis and mathematical analysis, a trigonometric polynomial is a finite linear combination of functions sin(nx) and cos(nx) with n...

In numerical analysis, the Lagrange interpolating polynomial is the unique polynomial of lowest degree that interpolates a given set of data. Given a...

existence of a short (polynomial length) solution. The correctness of each solution can be verified quickly (namely, in polynomial time) and a brute-force...

mathematics, Legendre polynomials, named after Adrien-Marie Legendre (1782), are a system of complete and orthogonal polynomials with a wide number of...

structures) is said to have polynomial delay if the time between the output of any one structure and the next is bounded by a polynomial function of the input...

of a Taylor series is a polynomial of degree n that is called the nth Taylor polynomial of the function. Taylor polynomials are approximations of a function...

elementary symmetric polynomials are one type of basic building block for symmetric polynomials, in the sense that any symmetric polynomial can be expressed...

In numerical analysis, polynomial interpolation is the interpolation of a given data set by the polynomial of lowest possible degree that passes through...

mathematics, an integer-valued polynomial (also known as a numerical polynomial) P ( t ) {\displaystyle P(t)} is a polynomial whose value P ( n ) {\displaystyle...

mathematics, a polynomial lemniscate or polynomial level curve is a plane algebraic curve of degree 2n, constructed from a polynomial p with complex coefficients...

Important graph polynomials include: The characteristic polynomial, based on the graph's adjacency matrix. The chromatic polynomial, a polynomial whose values...

In algebra, a monic polynomial is a non-zero univariate polynomial (that is, a polynomial in a single variable) in which the leading coefficient (the...

In computational complexity theory, a polynomial-time reduction is a method for solving one problem using another. One shows that if a hypothetical subroutine...

In mathematics, the degree of a polynomial is the highest of the degrees of the polynomial's monomials (individual terms) with non-zero coefficients. The...

In mathematics, an invariant polynomial is a polynomial P {\displaystyle P} that is invariant under a group Γ {\displaystyle \Gamma } acting on a vector...

A polynomial P is annihilating or called an annihilating polynomial in linear algebra and operator theory if the polynomial considered as a function of...

computer science, a polynomial-time algorithm is – generally speaking – an algorithm whose running time is upper-bounded by some polynomial function of the...