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  2. Parallelogram law - Wikipedia

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    Vectors involved in the parallelogram law. In a normed space, the statement of the parallelogram law is an equation relating norms: ‖ ‖ + ‖ ‖ = ‖ + ‖ + ‖ ‖,.. The parallelogram law is equivalent to the seemingly weaker statement: ‖ ‖ + ‖ ‖ ‖ + ‖ + ‖ ‖, because the reverse inequality can be obtained from it by substituting (+) for , and () for , and then simplifying.

  3. Quadratic equation - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1. Plots of quadratic function y = ax 2 + bx + c, varying each coefficient separately while the other coefficients are fixed (at values a = 1, b = 0, c = 0). A quadratic equation whose coefficients are real numbers can have either zero, one, or two distinct real-valued solutions, also called roots.

  4. Quadratic formula - Wikipedia

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    The quadratic formula is exactly correct when performed using the idealized arithmetic of real numbers, but when approximate arithmetic is used instead, for example pen-and-paper arithmetic carried out to a fixed number of decimal places or the floating-point binary arithmetic available on computers, the limitations of the number representation ...

  5. Polarization identity - Wikipedia

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    More generally, in the presence of a ring involution or where 2 is not invertible, one distinguishes -quadratic forms and -symmetric forms; a symmetric form defines a quadratic form, and the polarization identity (without a factor of 2) from a quadratic form to a symmetric form is called the "symmetrization map", and is not in general an ...

  6. Completing the square - Wikipedia

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    That is, h is the x-coordinate of the axis of symmetry (i.e. the axis of symmetry has equation x = h), and k is the minimum value (or maximum value, if a < 0) of the quadratic function. One way to see this is to note that the graph of the function f ( x ) = x 2 is a parabola whose vertex is at the origin (0, 0).

  7. List of numerical analysis topics - Wikipedia

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    Costate equationsequation for the "Lagrange multipliers" in Pontryagin's minimum principle; Hamiltonian (control theory) — minimum principle says that this function should be minimized; Types of problems: Linear-quadratic regulator — system dynamics is a linear differential equation, objective is quadratic

  8. Quadratic assignment problem - Wikipedia

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    The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is one of the fundamental combinatorial optimization problems in the branch of optimization or operations research in mathematics, from the category of the facilities location problems first introduced by Koopmans and Beckmann. [1] The problem models the following real-life problem:

  9. Solving quadratic equations with continued fractions - Wikipedia

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    The quadratic equation on a number can be solved using the well-known quadratic formula, which can be derived by completing the square. That formula always gives the roots of the quadratic equation, but the solutions are expressed in a form that often involves a quadratic irrational number, which is an algebraic fraction that can be evaluated ...