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  2. Polynomial evaluation - Wikipedia

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    Horner's method evaluates a polynomial using repeated bracketing: + + + + + = + (+ (+ (+ + (+)))). This method reduces the number of multiplications and additions to just Horner's method is so common that a computer instruction "multiply–accumulate operation" has been added to many computer processors, which allow doing the addition and multiplication operations in one combined step.

  3. Horner's method - Wikipedia

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    0.546 0 3522 −1 1 └─────────────────────── 22 −1 1 −4 The third row is the sum of the first two rows, divided by 2 . Each entry in the second row is the product of 1 with the third-row entry to the left.

  4. Trigonometric substitution - Wikipedia

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    In calculus, trigonometric substitutions are a technique for evaluating integrals. In this case, an expression involving a radical function is replaced with a trigonometric one. Trigonometric identities may help simplify the answer. [1][2] Like other methods of integration by substitution, when evaluating a definite integral, it may be simpler ...

  5. Degree of a polynomial - Wikipedia

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    The degree of the sum (or difference) of two polynomials is less than or equal to the greater of their degrees; that is, and . For example, the degree of is 2, and 2 ≤ max {3, 3}. The equality always holds when the degrees of the polynomials are different. For example, the degree of is 3, and 3 = max {3, 2}.

  6. 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.

  7. Legendre polynomials - Wikipedia

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    The Legendre polynomials were first introduced in 1782 by Adrien-Marie Legendre [3] as the coefficients in the expansion of the Newtonian potential where r and r′ are the lengths of the vectors x and x′ respectively and γ is the angle between those two vectors. The series converges when r > r′.

  8. Synthetic division - Wikipedia

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    E.g.: x**2 + 3*x + 5 will be represented as [1, 3, 5] """ out = list (dividend) # Copy the dividend normalizer = divisor [0] for i in range (len (dividend)-len (divisor) + 1): # For general polynomial division (when polynomials are non-monic), # we need to normalize by dividing the coefficient with the divisor's first coefficient out [i ...

  9. Rational root theorem - Wikipedia

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    This shows again that any rational root of P is positive, and the only remaining candidates are 2 and 2\3. To show thet 2 is not a root, it suffices to remark that if x = 2 , {\displaystyle x=2,} then 3 x 2 {\displaystyle 3x^{2}} and 5 x − 2 {\displaystyle 5x-2} are multiples of 8 , while − r x 2 {\displaystyle -rx^{2}} is not.