"arithmetic if":: Re: Feature f

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In article <14181 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:

> In article <1429 at crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen at 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"