We study which quadratic forms are representable as the local degree of a map f:An→An with an isolated zero at 0 , following the work of Kass and Wickelgren who established the connection to the quadratic form of Eisenbud, Khimshiashvili, and Levine. Our main observation is that over some base fields k , not all quadratic forms are representable as a local degree. Empirically the local degree ...