## 2 Preliminaries
### High Degree F-Transform
; methodology, B.C. and F.D.M. ; software, B.C. and F.D.M. ; validation, B.C. and F.D.M. ; formal analysis, B.C. and F.D.M. ; investigation, B.C. and F.D.M. ; resources, B.C. and F.D.M. ; data curation, B.C. and F.D.M. ; writing--original draft preparation, B.C. and F.D.M. ; writing--review and editing, B.C. and F.D.M. ; visualization, B.C. and F.D.M. ; supervision, B.C. and F.D.M. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This research received no external funding. Data Availability StatementData sharing is not applicable. The authors declare no conflict of interest. ## References

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