Skip to content
EntityQ16667694· pop 36· linked from 152 articles

cubic function

Sign in to save

a polynomial function in a single variable where the highest exponent of the variable is 3

~10 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Graph of a cubic function with 3 real roots (where the curve crosses the horizontal axis—where y = 0). The case shown has two critical points. Here the function is f(x) = (x + 3x − 6x − 8)/4.

In mathematics, a cubic function is a function of the form

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cubic function” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.