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  2. Vieta's formulas - Wikipedia

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    Vieta's formulas are frequently used with polynomials with coefficients in any integral domain R.Then, the quotients / belong to the field of fractions of R (and possibly are in R itself if happens to be invertible in R) and the roots are taken in an algebraically closed extension.

  3. Quadratic formula - Wikipedia

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    The roots of the quadratic function y = ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ x 2 − 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.

  4. Cubic equation - Wikipedia

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    This allows computing the multiple root, and the third root can be deduced from the sum of the roots, which is provided by Vieta's formulas. A difference with other characteristics is that, in characteristic 2, the formula for a double root involves a square root, and, in characteristic 3, the formula for a triple root involves a cube root.

  5. nth root - Wikipedia

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    A root of degree 2 is called a square root and a root of degree 3, a cube root. Roots of higher degree are referred by using ordinal numbers, as in fourth root, twentieth root, etc. The computation of an n th root is a root extraction. For example, 3 is a square root of 9, since 3 2 = 9, and −3 is also a square root of 9, since (−3) 2 = 9.

  6. Quadratic equation - Wikipedia

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    A quadratic equation always has two roots, if complex roots are included and a double root is counted for two. A quadratic equation can be factored into an equivalent equation [ 3 ] a x 2 + b x + c = a ( x − r ) ( x − s ) = 0 {\displaystyle ax^{2}+bx+c=a(x-r)(x-s)=0} where r and s are the solutions for x .

  7. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    Newton's method is a powerful technique—in general the convergence is quadratic: as the method converges on the root, the difference between the root and the approximation is squared (the number of accurate digits roughly doubles) at each step. However, there are some difficulties with the method.

  8. Mental calculation - Wikipedia

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    A+B+C are then added together to reach a sum (D). Step 4 is where the units digit to step 3’s initial answer to: (u 1 • u 2) is attached (symbolized by: @) to the end of the sum of steps 1-3. Step 4 = D @ u (u 1 • u 2) = E. Finally this number is taken and the following is added to it: Step 5 = E + (T 1 • T 2) = Final Answer

  9. Ramanujan's sum - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, there are φ(q) primitive q-th roots of unity. Thus, the Ramanujan sum c q (n) is the sum of the n-th powers of the primitive q-th roots of unity. It is a fact [3] that the powers of ζ q are precisely the primitive roots for all the divisors of q. Example. Let q = 12. Then