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What do you think about this description?
Is this efficient and useful or misleadingly simplistic?
What the leading coefficient of a polynomial does to a graph:
Positive Leading coefficient => right-hand end points up
Negative Leading coefficient => right-hand end points down
Degree odd => ends point opposite ways
Degree even => ends point same way
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It seems to me this is an efficient way to talk about what the leading coefficient of a polynomial does to a graph: Leading coef + => right-hand end points up. Leading coef - => right-hand end points down. Degree odd => ends point opposite ways. Degree even => ends point same way
— David Butler (@DavidKButlerUoA) September 10, 2020
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