root
For a suitably differentiable function f, then h is said to be a root of order (or multiplicity) n if
If f(x) is a polynomial, this is equivalent to (x − h)n dividing f(x) but no greater power. A root of order greater than 1 is called a multiple root or repeated root.
See also order of contact, Vie`te's formulae.
- factor analysis
- factorial
- factorize
- factor space
- factor theorem
- fair
- faithful action
- fallacy
- false negative
- false position
- false positive
- family
- fast Fourier transform
- Fatou's lemma
- feasible
- feasible region
- Feigenbaum, Mitchell
- Feit-Thompson theorem
- femto‐
- Fermat, Pierre de
- Fermat point
- Fermat prime
- Fermat's Last Theorem
- Fermat's Little Theorem
- Fermat's Theorem