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  2. Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares - Wikipedia

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    If two primes which end in 3 or 7 and surpass by 3 a multiple of 4 are multiplied, then their product will be composed of a square and the quintuple of another square. In other words, if p, q are of the form 20k + 3 or 20k + 7, then pq = x 2 + 5y 2. Euler later extended this to the conjecture that

  3. Congruence of squares - Wikipedia

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    This means that n divides the product (x + y)(x − y). The second non-triviality condition guarantees that n does not divide ( x + y ) nor ( x − y ) individually. Thus ( x + y ) and ( x − y ) each contain some, but not all, factors of n , and the greatest common divisors of ( x + y , n ) and of ( x − y , n ) will give us these factors.

  4. Ring (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    For any element x in a ring R, one has x0 = 0 = 0x (zero is an absorbing element with respect to multiplication) and (–1)x = –x. If 0 = 1 in a ring R (or more generally, 0 is a unit element), then R has only one element, and is called the zero ring. If a ring R contains the zero ring as a subring, then R itself is the zero ring. [6]

  5. Square (algebra) - Wikipedia

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    For instance, the square of the linear polynomial x + 1 is the quadratic polynomial (x + 1) 2 = x 2 + 2x + 1. One of the important properties of squaring, for numbers as well as in many other mathematical systems, is that (for all numbers x), the square of x is the same as the square of its additive inverse −x.

  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. Synthetic division - Wikipedia

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    E.g.: x**2 + 3*x + 5 will be represented as [1, 3, 5] """ out = list (dividend) # Copy the dividend normalizer = divisor [0] for i in range (len (dividend)-len (divisor) + 1): # For general polynomial division (when polynomials are non-monic), # we need to normalize by dividing the coefficient with the divisor's first coefficient out [i ...

  8. Division ring - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, it is a nontrivial ring [3] in which every nonzero element a has a multiplicative inverse, that is, an element usually denoted a –1, such that a a –1 = a –1 a = 1. So, (right) division may be defined as a / b = a b –1, but this notation is avoided, as one may have a b –1 ≠ b –1 a. A commutative division ring is a field.

  9. Polynomial evaluation - Wikipedia

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    Horner's method evaluates a polynomial using repeated bracketing: + + + + + = + (+ (+ (+ + (+)))). This method reduces the number of multiplications and additions to just Horner's method is so common that a computer instruction "multiply–accumulate operation" has been added to many computer processors, which allow doing the addition and multiplication operations in one combined step.