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  2. Quadrature (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The area of the surface of a sphere is equal to four times the area of the circle formed by a great circle of this sphere. The area of a segment of a parabola determined by a straight line cutting it is 4/3 the area of a triangle inscribed in this segment. For the proofs of these results, Archimedes used the method of exhaustion attributed to ...

  3. Quadrant (plane geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The expression reads "All Science Teachers Crazy" and proceeding counterclockwise from the upper right quadrant, we see that "All" functions are positive in quadrant I, "Science" (for sine) is positive in quadrant II, "Teachers" (for tangent) is positive in quadrant III, and "Crazy" (for cosine) is positive in quadrant IV.

  4. Cartesian coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    The quadrants may be named or numbered in various ways, but the quadrant where all coordinates are positive is usually called the first quadrant. If the coordinates of a point are ( x , y ) , then its distances from the X -axis and from the Y -axis are | y | and | x |, respectively; where | · | denotes the absolute value of a number.

  5. Octant (solid geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The horizontal plane shows the four quadrants between x- and y-axis. (Vertex numbers are little-endian balanced ternary.) An octant in solid geometry is one of the eight divisions of a Euclidean three-dimensional coordinate system defined by the signs of the coordinates. It is analogous to the two-dimensional quadrant and the one-dimensional ...

  6. Quadtree - Wikipedia

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    The region quadtree represents a partition of space in two dimensions by decomposing the region into four equal quadrants, subquadrants, and so on with each leaf node containing data corresponding to a specific subregion.

  7. Square - Wikipedia

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    Its area is = =. This formula for the area of a square as the second power of its side length led to the use of the term squaring to mean raising any number to the second power. [6] Reversing this relation, the side length of a square of a given area is the square root of the area.

  8. Coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    A point in the plane may be represented in homogeneous coordinates by a triple (x, y, z) where x/z and y/z are the Cartesian coordinates of the point. [10] This introduces an "extra" coordinate since only two are needed to specify a point on the plane, but this system is useful in that it represents any point on the projective plane without the ...

  9. Quadrature of the Parabola - Wikipedia

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    A parabolic segment is the region bounded by a parabola and line. To find the area of a parabolic segment, Archimedes considers a certain inscribed triangle. The base of this triangle is the given chord of the parabola, and the third vertex is the point on the parabola such that the tangent to the parabola at that point is parallel to the chord.