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  2. Expression (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Terms that are either constants or have the same variables raised to the same powers are called like terms. If there are like terms in an expression, one can simplify the expression by combining the like terms. One adds the coefficients and keeps the same variable. + + =

  3. Exponentiation - Wikipedia

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    The definition of exponentiation can be extended in a natural way (preserving the multiplication rule) to define for any positive real base and any real number exponent . More involved definitions allow complex base and exponent, as well as certain types of matrices as base or exponent.

  4. Algebraic expression - Wikipedia

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    The process of transforming an irrational fraction to a rational fraction is known as rationalization. Every irrational fraction in which the radicals are monomials may be rationalized by finding the least common multiple of the indices of the roots, and substituting the variable for another variable with the least common multiple as exponent.

  5. Variable (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a variable (from Latin variabilis, "changeable") is a symbol, typically a letter, that refers to an unspecified mathematical object. [1] [2] [3] One says colloquially that the variable represents or denotes the object, and that any valid candidate for the object is the value of the variable.

  6. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    For example, (,) means that the distribution of the random variable X is standard normal. [2] 6. Notation for proportionality. See also ∝ for a less ambiguous symbol. ≡ 1. Denotes an identity; that is, an equality that is true whichever values are given to the variables occurring in it. 2.

  7. Fractional calculus - Wikipedia

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    A simple extension of the fractional derivative is the variable-order fractional derivative, α and β are changed into α(x, t) and β(x, t). Its applications in anomalous diffusion modeling can be found in the reference.

  8. Subscript and superscript - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, high superscripts are used for exponentiation to indicate that one number or variable is raised to the power of another number or variable. Thus y 4 is y raised to the fourth power, 2 x is 2 raised to the power of x, and the equation E = mc 2 includes a term for the speed of light squared.

  9. Generating function - Wikipedia

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    The particular form of the Jacobi-type continued fractions (J-fractions) are expanded as in the following equation and have the next corresponding power series expansions with respect to z for some specific, application-dependent component sequences, {ab i} and {c i}, where z ≠ 0 denotes the formal variable in the second power series ...