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Quadratic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or resembling a square.
2.
Of or relating to the second power.





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"Quadratic" Quotes from Famous Books



... and analysed the balance sheets of railway companies, decoded messages from London or from Paris, transcribed formulae as abstract, as remote from tangible things as the x and y of algebraic equations. These men all worked—the apologue of the quadratic equation held my mind—moving their symbols here and there, extracting roots, dissolving close-knit phrases into factors, cancelling, simplifying, but always dealing with symbols meaningless, unreal in themselves. Behind them was Ascher, Ascher and I suppose Stutz, ...
— Gossamer - 1915 • George A. Birmingham
... possibilities of the Peaucellier linkage, as no doubt our modern investigators are. Through a compounding of Peaucellier mechanisms, he had already devised square-root and cube-root extractors, an angle trisector, and a quadratic-binomial root extractor, and he could see no limits to the computing abilities ...
— Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt • Eugene S. Ferguson


Words linked to "Quadratic" :   multinomial, square, polynomial, equation, quadratic equation, quadratic polynomial


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