• quadratic irrational number (also known as a quadratic irrational or quadratic surd) is an irrational number that is the solution to some quadratic equation...
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    root of 2 was likely the first number proved irrational. The golden ratio is another famous quadratic irrational number. The square roots of all natural...
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  • gives the roots of the quadratic equation, but the solutions are expressed in a form that often involves a quadratic irrational number, which is an algebraic...
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    all rational numbers have degree 1, and an algebraic number of degree 2 is a quadratic irrational. The algebraic numbers are dense in the reals. This follows...
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  • In algebraic number theory, a quadratic field is an algebraic number field of degree two over Q {\displaystyle \mathbf {Q} } , the rational numbers. Every...
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    In mathematics, an irrationality measure of a real number x {\displaystyle x} is a measure of how "closely" it can be approximated by rationals. If a function...
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  • Quadratic field, an algebraic number field of degree two over the field of rational numbers Quadratic irrational or "quadratic surd", an irrational number...
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    quadratic irrational numbers to rational numbers on the unit interval, via an expression relating the continued fraction expansions of the quadratics...
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  • represents an unknown number, and a, b, and c represent known numbers, where a ≠ 0. (If a = 0 and b ≠ 0 then the equation is linear, not quadratic.) The numbers...
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  • {\displaystyle SL(2,\mathbb {Z} ).} A quadratic irrational number is an irrational real root of the quadratic equation a x 2 + b x + c = 0 {\displaystyle...
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  • subset of the algebraic numbers, including the quadratic irrationals and other forms of algebraic irrationals. Applying any non-constant single-variable algebraic...
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    square is irrational. For other proofs that the square root of any non-square natural number is irrational, see Quadratic irrational number or Infinite...
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    is a quadratic irrational number in the upper half plane then j(τ) is an algebraic integer. In addition he proved that if τ is an algebraic number but...
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  • theorem Irrational number Square root of two Quadratic irrational Integer square root Algebraic number Pisot–Vijayaraghavan number Salem number Transcendental...
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  • {\displaystyle M(\alpha )<\infty } if α {\displaystyle \alpha } is a quadratic irrational number. In fact, the lower bound for M ( α ) {\displaystyle M(\alpha...
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    number that can be represented as a ratio of two perfect squares. (See square root of 2 for proofs that this is an irrational number, and quadratic irrational...
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  • real-valued function of an integer or natural number variable). Examples of quadratic growth include: Any quadratic polynomial. Certain integer sequences such...
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  • Apotome (mathematics) (category Number theory stubs)
    apotome can be interpreted as a quadratic irrational number formed by subtracting one square root of a rational number from another. This concept of the...
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    also proves that e is not a root of a quadratic polynomial with rational coefficients; in particular, e2 is irrational. The most well-known proof is Joseph...
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    other integer arguments, Pythagorean addition can produce a quadratic irrational number as its result. The operation ⊕ {\displaystyle \oplus } is associative...
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    In mathematics, a quadratic function of a single variable is a function of the form f ( x ) = a x 2 + b x + c , a ≠ 0 , {\displaystyle f(x)=ax^{2}+bx+c...
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    Square root of 5 (category Quadratic irrational numbers)
    it solves the quadratic equation ⁠ x 2 − 5 = 0 {\displaystyle x^{2}-5=0} ⁠, making it a quadratic integer, a type of algebraic number. ⁠ 5 {\displaystyle...
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    to various issues. The number of votes to add is determined by a quadratic cost function, which simply means that the number of votes an individual casts...
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  • In number theory, quadratic integers are a generalization of the usual integers to quadratic fields. A complex number is called a quadratic integer if...
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  • quadratic irrationals that are PV numbers are: Pisot–Vijayaraghavan numbers can be used to generate almost integers: the nth power of a Pisot number approaches...
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    Imaginary unit (redirect from I (number))
    imaginary number (i) is a mathematical constant that is a solution to the quadratic equation x2 + 1 = 0. Although there is no real number with this property...
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  • 1 (redirect from 1 (the number))
    identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents...
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    } ⁠ satisfies the quadratic equation ⁠ φ 2 = φ + 1 {\displaystyle \textstyle \varphi ^{2}=\varphi +1} ⁠ and is an irrational number with a value of φ...
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    case that every real number is rational. A real number that is not rational is called irrational. A famous irrational real number is the π, the ratio of...
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  • principle of the number field sieve (both special and general) can be understood as an improvement to the simpler rational sieve or quadratic sieve. When using...
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