Problem 42692. Polynomial Evaluation

Created by Md Tariqul Islam

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Jihye Sofia Seo on 9 Feb 2017

seems like a really fun and challenging problem!

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 17 Sep 2020

Maybe the author should prohibit the use of polyval, str2num and regexp for this problem.

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