And thusly David V. Corbin spake:
 That is a classic. Brings back memories of a story about "Miss Poly Nomial".
 I had a printout of that from Dartmouth back in the mid/late seventies [on
 green-bar paper!]. Lost the printout during a job change in 1992. If anyone
 has a copy of the story I would greaatly appreciate it [It entd with a
 statement about too many degrees of freedom].
  
I think this is what you want...
http://home.dialix.com/~u5453/PollyNomial.html
Cheers,
Bryan Pope