What is a microcomputer?

computers that are small and mobile, and meant to be carried around and taken from place to place.

run hundreds of thousands of processors, capable of computer quadrillions of calculations in a few nanoseconds. used in computational science and quantum mechanics.

smaller computers designed for one user, meant for every-day uses. types of microcomputers vary widely.

Function name: poly parameters: int returns: int description: a polynomial of degree n with coefficients a0,a1,a2,a3, . . ,an is the function p(x) = a0+a1x+a2x2+a3 ∗ x3+ . . +an ∗ xn this function can be evaluated at different values of x. for example, if: p(x) = 1+2x+ x2, then p(2) = 1+2 ∗ 2+22 = 9. if p(x) = 1+x2+x4, then p(2) = 21 and p(3) = 91. write a function poly() that takes as input a list of coefficients a0, a1, a2, a3, . . , an of a polynomial p(x) and a value x. the function will return poly(x), which is the value of the polynomial when evaluated at x.