+88 Hello all,
I have a question: what is a composite polynomial? I tried searching this up but the results aren't very clear to me and I don't understand them well. Could someone explain this to me and perhaps show it with an example?
Thanks in advance!
+1223 Let's think about composite numbers instead. Composite numbers can be written as the product of smaller prime numbers. For example, 6 = 2 * 3.
Composite polynomials are kind of the same. They can be written as the product of smaller, indivisible factors.
For example, x^4 - 16 = (x^2 + 4)(x + 2)(x - 2).
You can't divide these factors any further, so x^4 - 16 is composite.
