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  2. Quadratic formula - Wikipedia

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    Quadratic formula. The roots of the quadratic function y = ⁠ 1 2 ⁠x2 − 3x + ⁠ 5 2 ⁠ are the places where the graph intersects the x -axis, the values x = 1 and x = 5. They can be found via the quadratic formula. In elementary algebra, the quadratic formula is a closed-form expression describing the solutions of a quadratic equation.

  3. Water pouring puzzle - Wikipedia

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    Water pouring puzzle. Starting state of the standard puzzle; a jug filled with 8 units of water, and two empty jugs of sizes 5 and 3. The solver must pour the water so that the first and second jugs both contain 4 units, and the third is empty. Water pouring puzzles (also called water jug problems, decanting problems, [1][2] measuring puzzles ...

  4. Runge–Kutta methods - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In numerical analysis, the Runge–Kutta methods (English: / ˈrʊŋəˈkʊtɑː / ⓘ RUUNG-ə-KUUT-tah[1]) are a family of implicit and explicit iterative methods, which include the Euler method, used in temporal discretization for the approximate solutions of simultaneous nonlinear equations. [2]

  5. Elementary algebra - Wikipedia

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    For example, taking the statement x + 1 = 0, if x is substituted with 1, this implies 1 + 1 = 2 = 0, which is false, which implies that if x + 1 = 0 then x cannot be 1. If x and y are integers, rationals, or real numbers, then xy = 0 implies x = 0 or y = 0. Consider abc = 0. Then, substituting a for x and bc for y, we learn a = 0 or bc = 0.

  6. Quadratic residue - Wikipedia

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    x 2 ≡ 4 (mod 3) has two solutions, 1 and 2; x 2 ≡ 4 (mod 5) has two, 2 and 3. and there are four solutions modulo 15, namely 2, 7, 8, and 13. Solve x 2 ≡ 7 (mod 15). x 2 ≡ 7 (mod 3) has two solutions, 1 and 2; x 2 ≡ 7 (mod 5) has no solutions. and there are no solutions modulo 15.

  7. How to Solve It - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics, problem solving. Publication date. 1945. ISBN. 9780691164076. How to Solve It (1945) is a small volume by mathematician George Pólya, describing methods of problem solving. [1] This book has remained in print continually since 1945.

  8. Cubic equation - Wikipedia

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    Here the function is and therefore the three real roots are 2, -1 and -4. In algebra, a cubic equation in one variable is an equation of the form in which a is not zero. The solutions of this equation are called roots of the cubic function defined by the left-hand side of the equation. If all of the coefficients a, b, c, and d of the cubic ...

  9. Greedy algorithm for Egyptian fractions - Wikipedia

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    2 + 8x 2 − 1 = 0. Since P 2 (x) < 0 for x = ⁠ 1 / 9 ⁠, and P 2 (x) > 0 for all x > ⁠ 1 / 8 ⁠, the next term in the greedy expansion is ⁠ 1 / 9 ⁠. If x 3 is the remaining fraction after this step of the greedy expansion, it satisfies the equation P 2 (x 3 + ⁠ 1 / 9 ⁠) = 0, which can again be expanded as a polynomial equation ...