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  2. Difference quotient - Wikipedia

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    Difference quotients may also find relevance in applications involving Time discretization, where the width of the time step is used for the value of h. The difference quotient is sometimes also called the Newton quotient [10] [12] [13] [14] (after Isaac Newton) or Fermat's difference quotient (after Pierre de Fermat). [15]

  3. Polynomial long division - Wikipedia

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    Place the result (+3) below the bar. 3x has been divided leaving no remainder, and can therefore be marked as used. The result 3 is then multiplied by the second term in the divisor −3 = −9. Determine the partial remainder by subtracting −4 − (−9) = 5. Mark −4 as used and place the new remainder 5 above it.

  4. Symmetric derivative - Wikipedia

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    For differentiable functions, the symmetric difference quotient does provide a better numerical approximation of the derivative than the usual difference quotient. [3] The symmetric derivative at a given point equals the arithmetic mean of the left and right derivatives at that point, if the latter two both exist. [1] [2]: 6

  5. Long division - Wikipedia

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    Find the shortest sequence of digits starting from the left end of the dividend, 500, that the divisor 4 goes into at least once. In this case, this is simply the first digit, 5. The largest number that the divisor 4 can be multiplied by without exceeding 5 is 1, so the digit 1 is put above the 5 to start constructing the quotient.

  6. Chunking (division) - Wikipedia

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    To calculate the whole number quotient of dividing a large number by a small number, the student repeatedly takes away "chunks" of the large number, where each "chunk" is an easy multiple (for example 100×, 10×, 5× 2×, etc.) of the small number, until the large number has been reduced to zero – or the remainder is less than the small ...

  7. Division (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In terms of partition, 20 / 5 means the size of each of 5 parts into which a set of size 20 is divided. For example, 20 apples divide into five groups of four apples, meaning that "twenty divided by five is equal to four". This is denoted as 20 / 5 = 4, or ⁠ 20 / 5 ⁠ = 4. [2] In the example, 20 is the dividend, 5 is the divisor, and 4 is ...

  8. Rayleigh quotient - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the Rayleigh quotient [1] (/ ˈ r eɪ. l i /) for a given complex Hermitian matrix and nonzero vector is defined as: [2] [3] (,) =. For real matrices and vectors, the condition of being Hermitian reduces to that of being symmetric , and the conjugate transpose x ∗ {\displaystyle x^{*}} to the usual transpose x ...

  9. Quotient (universal algebra) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a quotient algebra is the result of partitioning the elements of an algebraic structure using a congruence relation. Quotient algebras are also called factor algebras . Here, the congruence relation must be an equivalence relation that is additionally compatible with all the operations of the algebra, in the formal sense ...