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  2. Completing the square - Wikipedia

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    Animation depicting the process of completing the square. (Details, animated GIF version) In elementary algebra, completing the square is a technique for converting a quadratic polynomial of the form ⁠ ⁠ to the form ⁠ ⁠ for some values of ⁠ ⁠ and ⁠ ⁠. [1] In terms of a new quantity ⁠ ⁠, this expression is a quadratic ...

  3. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    In numerical analysis, the Newton–Raphson method, also known simply as Newton's method, named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a root-finding algorithm which produces successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real -valued function. The most basic version starts with a real-valued function f, its derivative f ...

  4. Mahalanobis distance - Wikipedia

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    It is a multivariate generalization of the square of the standard score = /: how many standard deviations away is from the mean of . This distance is zero for P {\displaystyle P} at the mean of D {\displaystyle D} and grows as P {\displaystyle P} moves away from the mean along each principal component axis.

  5. Gaussian integral - Wikipedia

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    Integral of the Gaussian function, equal to sqrt (π) A graph of the function and the area between it and the -axis, (i.e. the entire real line) which is equal to . The Gaussian integral, also known as the Euler–Poisson integral, is the integral of the Gaussian function over the entire real line. Named after the German mathematician Carl ...

  6. Multivariable calculus - Wikipedia

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    Multivariable calculus is used in many fields of natural and social science and engineering to model and study high-dimensional systems that exhibit deterministic behavior. In economics , for example, consumer choice over a variety of goods, and producer choice over various inputs to use and outputs to produce, are modeled with multivariate ...

  7. Quadratic equation - Wikipedia

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    Quadratic equation. In mathematics, a quadratic equation (from Latin quadratus ' square ') is an equation that can be rearranged in standard form as [1] where x represents an unknown value, and a, b, and c represent known numbers, where a ≠ 0. (If a = 0 and b ≠ 0 then the equation is linear, not quadratic.)

  8. Function of several real variables - Wikipedia

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    The image of a function f(x 1, x 2, …, x n) is the set of all values of f when the n-tuple (x 1, x 2, …, x n) runs in the whole domain of f.For a continuous (see below for a definition) real-valued function which has a connected domain, the image is either an interval or a single value.

  9. Partial differential equation - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which computes a function between various partial derivatives of a multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be solved for, similar to how x is thought of as an unknown number to be solved for in an algebraic equation like x2 − 3x + 2 = 0.