sasg0244@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (08/10/89)
/* ---------- "Re: "arithmetic if":: Re: Feature f" ---------- */ In article <14181@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: > In article <1429@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1 (bill davidsen) writes: > >Obviously no one wants to have labels, but perhaps something like: > > n = (a-b $ -1 : 0 : 1); > >where there would be a "quadratic operator." > (PS: I think the word for 4-adic is "tetradic" or "quadary", not "quadratic".) the word you're looking for is "quartic"