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Consider the two-dimensional differential system \[ dx/dt = P(x,y), \qquad dy/dt =Q(x,y),\tag \(*\) \] with \(P(x,y)=\sum^\infty _{k=m} P _k (x,y)\), \(Q(x,y) = \sum^\infty _{k=m} Q_k (x,y)\), where \(P _k\) and \(Q _k\) are homogeneous polynomials of degree \(k,m \geq 1\) is an odd integer. In polar coordinates \((*)\) reads \(dr/dt=U(r,\Theta)\), \(d \Theta /dt = V(r,\Theta)\). Concerning \(U\) and \(V\) it is assumed: \(U(0,\Theta) \equiv 0\) \(\forall \Theta, V (r,\Theta)>0\) for \(r>0\), \(V(0,\Theta) \geq 0\), \(V(0,\Theta) \not\equiv 0.\) Under these assumptions, the author derives formulas for computing the focal values. The author generalizes former approaches for \(m=1\).