its fine and i tottaly agree (top one)

I agree with Toast. You've pretty much said everything you can say about degree, and explained it very well.

I'm not sure whether you should include the bit about loggy limits, because it's on a substantially higher level than the rest of the page.

Hey, just thought I might mention. I recall reading that in multivariable equations, the degree of each term is the sum of the exponants of the variables in the term, and the degree of the expression or equation is equal to the degree of its highest degree term.

At least thats what I recall. I might have forgotten the precise definiton.

So, xy would be order 2 then? That makes sense.

especially if you consider a system of equations such as xy = 2 and y = 2x + 3, substituting you get y = 4/y + 3 which becomes y^2 - 3y - 4 = 0 which is obviously a 2nd degree equation.

Hmm... in my math books "ln" was always used for base e, and "log" was assumed to be base 10 when no base was given. However, in programming "log" itself tends to go by base e. So I guess it depends on what you're familiar with. At any rate, I think people from both fields will recognize "ln" so maybe you should use that. Or at least display what base you are using.

In "advanced" texts I notice that "log" is used instead of "ln". I'm not sure why they don't save themselves a letter and stick with "tradition", but I can see how they justify replacing the base 10 log notation with base e: base 10 logarithms just aren't that commonly used farther down the road. I think that ln is the clearest notation though. Is ln used in England?

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