boo CPhill, enough of these have been done that I'd have thought you'd seen one by now.
You need to take successive adjacent differences of f(x)
({30,0,−2,0,30,160,510}{30,2,−2,−30,−130,−350}{28,4,28,100,220}{24,−24,−72,−120}{48,48,48})
in the matrix above the first line is f.
successive lines are formed by taking the line above minus it shifted 1 place to the left
that we could do this 4 times before all the numbers were equal shows that f is degree 4