Understanding Affine Functions: A Beginner's Guide

[gfd43tg]

Hello,

What is an affine function? My professor has been throwing around this term in the lecture videos and I have never heard of it. I looked it up, and is it basically a quadratic function, but used for matrices??

 

[SteamKing]

Hello,

What is an affine function? My professor has been throwing around this term in the lecture videos and I have never heard of it. I looked it up, and is it basically a quadratic function, but used for matrices??

IDK where you got the idea that an affine function is quadratic.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AffineFunction.html