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  2. Quartic equation - Wikipedia

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    Then they can be divided out and the resulting quadratic equation solved. In general, there exist only four possible cases of quartic equations with multiple roots, which are listed below: [3] Multiplicity-4 (M4): when the general quartic equation can be expressed as () =, for some real number. This case can always be reduced to a biquadratic ...

  3. Five points determine a conic - Wikipedia

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    The two subtleties in the above analysis are that the resulting point is a quadratic equation (not a linear equation), and that the constraints are independent. The first is simple: if A , B , and C all vanish, then the equation D x + E y + F = 0 {\displaystyle Dx+Ey+F=0} defines a line, and any 3 points on this (indeed any number of points ...

  4. Quartic function - Wikipedia

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    Finding the distance of closest approach of two ellipses involves solving a quartic equation. The eigenvalues of a 4×4 matrix are the roots of a quartic polynomial which is the characteristic polynomial of the matrix. The characteristic equation of a fourth-order linear difference equation or differential equation is a quartic

  5. Quartic plane curve - Wikipedia

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    The cruciform curve, or cross curve is a quartic plane curve given by the equation = where a and b are two parameters determining the shape of the curve. The cruciform curve is related by a standard quadratic transformation, x ↦ 1/x, y ↦ 1/y to the ellipse a 2 x 2 + b 2 y 2 = 1, and is therefore a rational plane algebraic curve of genus zero.

  6. Lambert's problem - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: is the centre of attraction, is the point corresponding to vector ¯, and is the point corresponding to vector ¯ Figure 2: Hyperbola with the points and as foci passing through Figure 3: Ellipse with the points and as foci passing through and

  7. Resolvent cubic - Wikipedia

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    The origin of this definition lies in another method of solving quartic equations, namely Descartes' method. If you try to find the roots of P ( x ) by expressing it as a product of two monic quadratic polynomials x 2 + αx + β and x 2 – αx + γ , then

  8. Quadric - Wikipedia

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    A quadratic set is a set of points of a projective space with the same geometric properties as a quadric: every line intersects a quadratic set in at most two points or is contained in the set. See also

  9. Bitangents of a quartic - Wikipedia

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    An explicit quartic with twenty-eight real bitangents was first given by Plücker [1] As Plücker showed, the number of real bitangents of any quartic must be 28, 16, or a number less than 9. Another quartic with 28 real bitangents can be formed by the locus of centers of ellipses with fixed axis lengths, tangent to two non-parallel lines. [2]