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  2. Nested radical - Wikipedia

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    In the case of two nested square roots, the following theorem completely solves the problem of denesting. [2]If a and c are rational numbers and c is not the square of a rational number, there are two rational numbers x and y such that + = if and only if is the square of a rational number d.

  3. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    Newton's method is one of many known methods of computing square roots. Given a positive number a, the problem of finding a number x such that x 2 = a is equivalent to finding a root of the function f(x) = x 2 − a. The Newton iteration defined by this function is given by

  4. Slide rule - Wikipedia

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    Inverting this process allows square roots to be found, and similarly for the powers 3, 1/3, 2/3, and 3/2. Care must be taken when the base, x, is found in more than one place on its scale. For instance, there are two nines on the A scale; to find the square root of nine, use the first one; the second one gives the square root of 90.

  5. System of polynomial equations - Wikipedia

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    Thus solving a polynomial system over a number field is reduced to solving another system over the rational numbers. For example, if a system contains , a system over the rational numbers is obtained by adding the equation r 2 22 = 0 and replacing by r 2 in the other equations.

  6. Root system - Wikipedia

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    The root system G 2 has 12 roots, which form the vertices of a hexagram. See the picture above. One choice of simple roots is (α 1, β = α 2 − α 1) where α i = e i − e i+1 for i = 1, 2 is the above choice of simple roots for A 2. The G 2 root lattice—that is, the lattice generated by the G 2 roots—is the same as the A 2 root lattice.

  7. System of equations - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a set of simultaneous equations, also known as a system of equations or an equation system, is a finite set of equations for which common solutions are sought. An equation system is usually classified in the same manner as single equations, namely as a: System of linear equations, System of nonlinear equations,

  8. History of algebra - Wikipedia

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    1) An unknown is named and an equation is set up 2) An equation is simplified to a standard form( al-jabr and al-muqābala in arabic) 3) Simplified equation is solved [40] Diophantus does not give a classification of equations in six types like Al-Khwarizmi in extant parts of Arithmetica.

  9. Exponentiation - Wikipedia

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    The binary number system expresses any number as a sum of powers of 2, and denotes it as a sequence of 0 and 1, separated by a binary point, where 1 indicates a power of 2 that appears in the sum; the exponent is determined by the place of this 1: the nonnegative exponents are the rank of the 1 on the left of the point (starting from 0), and ...