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2. Absolute value - Wikipedia

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   The absolute value of a number may be thought of as its distance from zero. In mathematics, the absolute value or modulus of a real number , denoted , is the non-negative value of without regard to its sign. Namely, if is a positive number, and if is negative (in which case negating makes positive), and . For example, the absolute value of 3 is ...

3. Addition - Wikipedia

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   If a and b have different signs, define a + b to be the difference between |a| and |b|, with the sign of the term whose absolute value is larger. [61] As an example, −6 + 4 = −2; because −6 and 4 have different signs, their absolute values are subtracted, and since the absolute value of the negative term is larger, the answer is negative.

4. Absolute difference - Wikipedia

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   The absolute difference of two real numbers and is given by , the absolute value of their difference. It describes the distance on the real line between the points corresponding to and . It is a special case of the L p distance for all and is the standard metric used for both the set of rational numbers and their completion, the set of real ...

5. Polynomial - Wikipedia

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   The mapping that associates the result of this substitution to the substituted value is a function, called a polynomial function. This can be expressed more concisely by using summation notation : ∑ k = 0 n a k x k {\displaystyle \sum _{k=0}^{n}a_{k}x^{k}} That is, a polynomial can either be zero or can be written as the sum of a finite ...

6. Absolute value (algebra) - Wikipedia

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   The standard absolute value on the integers. The standard absolute value on the complex numbers.; The p-adic absolute value on the rational numbers.; If R is the field of rational functions over a field F and () is a fixed irreducible polynomial over F, then the following defines an absolute value on R: for () in R define | | to be , where () = () and ((), ()) = = ((), ()).

7. Hilbert's problems - Wikipedia

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   The 6th problem concerns the axiomatization of physics, a goal that 20th-century developments seem to render both more remote and less important than in Hilbert's time. Also, the 4th problem concerns the foundations of geometry , in a manner that is now generally judged to be too vague to enable a definitive answer.