Polynomials and their residue systems
Aubrey J. Kempner · Transactions of the American Mathematical Society · 1921
Coefficient of the leading term " = " coefficient of the highest power of the variable which is not = 0 ( mod to )." t Occasionally we shall indicate the fact that \p (x) is of degree not higher than re -1, by writing ^"_, ( x ).* Counting as a completely reduced polynomial also the polynomial all of whose coefficients are zero, as well as the constants 1,2, ■ • •, m -1.