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The FOIL method is a special case of a more general method for multiplying algebraic expressions using the distributive law. The word FOIL was originally intended solely as a mnemonic for high-school students learning algebra. The term appears in William Betz's 1929 text Algebra for Today, where he states: [2]
When multiplication is mentioned in elementary mathematics, it usually refers to this kind of multiplication. From the point of view of algebra, the real numbers form a field, which ensures the validity of the distributive law. First example (mental and written multiplication)
[1] [2] When n = 2, it is easy to see why this is incorrect: (x + y) 2 can be correctly computed as x 2 + 2xy + y 2 using distributivity (commonly known by students in the United States as the FOIL method).
The term "FOIL rule" is rarely used, "FOIL method" is an order of magnitude more common. I suggest moving the article accordingly. -- Vaughan Pratt ( talk ) 19:04, 6 September 2009 (UTC) [ reply ]
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All the above multiplication algorithms can also be expanded to multiply polynomials. Alternatively the Kronecker substitution technique may be used to convert the problem of multiplying polynomials into a single binary multiplication. [30] Long multiplication methods can be generalised to allow the multiplication of algebraic formulae: