Talk:indeterminant

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Latest comment: 12 years ago by SemperBlotto
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I think this isn't really a word. Determinant is a noun, so you can't really just add an "in-" to it and expect it to make sense. Probably what people are thinking of is "indeterminate". — This comment was unsigned.

  • Over 14,000 hits on Google book search. This is from Mathworld - "A Laurent polynomial is an algebraic object in the sense that it is treated as a polynomial except that the indeterminant can also have negative powers." SemperBlotto 17:07, 5 January 2012 (UTC)Reply