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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Valvino (talk | contribs) at 20:00, 7 April 2018 (add source). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

We already have a much better article at polynomial. The thrust of this new article seems to be that you can use synthetic division and the remainder theorem to find the value of a polynomial function at x=c. This is completely back-to-front - in practice, evaluating the polynomial function is simpler than synthetic division, so you use the value of the polynomial at x=c to find the remainder when the polynomial is divided by xc. Gandalf61 (talk) 11:08, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]