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Polynomials/N/Guessing/Exercise

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Two people, and , play polynomial-guessing. In this game, imagines a polynomial , where all coefficients are in . Person is allowed to ask for the values for certain natural numbers . Here, may choose these numbers arbitrarily, taking the previous answers into account. The goal is to find the polynomial.

Describe a strategy for to find always the polynomial, where the number of questions is (independent of the polynomial) bounded.