quadratic
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1. quadratic - Noun
2. quadratic - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
Tetragonal.
Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
One of the first algebraists to accept negative numbers was... placed negative numbers on a par with positive numbers and gave both roots of a quadratic equation, even when both were negative. Both Girard and Harriot used the minus sign for the operation of subtraction and for negative numbers.
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Although there are several more intrinsic constructions, the spin representations are not functorial in the quadratic form, so they cannot be built up naturally within the tensor algebra.
All quadratic equations will have two solutions in the complex number system, but need not have any in the real number system.
An integer a is a quadratic residue modulo p if it is congruent to a perfect square modulo p and is a quadratic nonresidue modulo p otherwise.