In algebraic geometry, a hyperelliptic curve is an algebraic curve given by an equation of the form
where f(x) is a polynomial of degree n > 4 with n distinct roots. A hyperelliptic function is a function from the function field of such a curve or possibly of the Jacobian variety on the curve, these being two concepts that are the same for the elliptic function case, but different in this case.
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