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In elementary algebra, completing the square is a technique for converting a quadratic polynomial of the form + + to the form + for some values of and . [1] In terms of a new quantity x − h {\displaystyle x-h} , this expression is a quadratic polynomial with no linear term.
This method for completing the square is ancient and was known to the 8th–9th century Indian mathematician Śrīdhara. [12] Compared with the modern standard method for completing the square, this alternate method avoids fractions until the last step and hence does not require a rearrangement after step 3 to obtain a common denominator in the ...
The steps given by Babylonian scribes for solving the above rectangle problem, in terms of x and y, were as follows: Compute half of p. Square the result. Subtract q. Find the (positive) square root using a table of squares. Add together the results of steps (1) and (4) to give x.
Another geometric proof proceeds as follows: We start with the figure shown in the first diagram below, a large square with a smaller square removed from it. The side of the entire square is a, and the side of the small removed square is b. The area of the shaded region is . A cut is made, splitting the region into two rectangular pieces, as ...
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The U.S. Department of Defense will consider granting honorable discharges to more than 30,000 gay and bisexual veterans who were barred from serving in the military because of their sexual ...
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Finding a given Latin square's isomorphism class can be a difficult computational problem for squares of large order. To reduce the problem somewhat, a Latin square can always be put into a standard form known as a reduced square. A reduced square has its top row elements written in some natural order for the symbol set (for example, integers ...