Feng shui and the Chinese zodiac both have roots in the I Ching, the ancient Chinese text that helps people determine lucky dates, among other predictions. Each year, Ng analyzes how the Chinese zodiac will affect everything from the global political climate to what the world's health will look like in the coming months.
The degree of a polynomial function is the highest exponent to which the dependent variable is raised. For example, f(x) = 4x 5 â x 2 + 5 is a fifth-degree polynomial, because its highest exponent is 5.
We observe that the above polynomial has four terms. Here the first term is 1, the second term is x, the third term is x2 and the fourth term is x3. Now we will determine the exponent of each term. Since, the greatest exponent is 3, the degree of 1 + x + x2 + x3 is also 3.