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  2. Mental calculation - Wikipedia

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    Thus, in the previous example, the square root of 15 is . As another example, square root of 41 is 6 5 12 = 6.416 {\displaystyle 6{\tfrac {5}{12}}=6.416} while the actual value is 6.4031... It may simplify mental calculation to notice that this method is equivalent to the mean of the known square and the unknown square, divided by the known ...

  3. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of Newton's method. 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.

  4. Nested radical - Wikipedia

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    In the case of two nested square roots, the following theorem completely solves the problem of denesting. [2]If a and c are rational numbers and c is not the square of a rational number, there are two rational numbers x and y such that + = if and only if is the square of a rational number d.

  5. Polynomial - Wikipedia

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    A root of a nonzero univariate polynomial P is a value a of x such that P(a) = 0. In other words, a root of P is a solution of the polynomial equation P(x) = 0 or a zero of the polynomial function defined by P. In the case of the zero polynomial, every number is a zero of the corresponding function, and the concept of root is rarely considered.

  6. Golden ratio - Wikipedia

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    A golden rectangle with long side a + b and short side a can be divided into two pieces: a similar golden rectangle (shaded red, right) with long side a and short side b and a square (shaded blue, left) with sides of length a.

  7. Quartic reciprocity - Wikipedia

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    The square root of the norm of λ, a nonnegative real number which may not be a Gaussian integer, is the absolute value of lambda. Gauss proves that Z[i] is a unique factorization domain and shows that the primes fall into three classes: [38] 2 is a special case: 2 = i 3 (1 + i) 2. It is the only prime in Z divisible by the square of a prime in ...

  8. Minimum mean square error - Wikipedia

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    Standard method like Gauss elimination can be used to solve the matrix equation for .A more numerically stable method is provided by QR decomposition method. Since the matrix is a symmetric positive definite matrix, can be solved twice as fast with the Cholesky decomposition, while for large sparse systems conjugate gradient method is more effective.

  9. Trigonometric functions - Wikipedia

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    Basis of trigonometry: if two right triangles have equal acute angles, they are similar, so their corresponding side lengths are proportional.. In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) [1] are real functions which relate an angle of a right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths.