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  2. Pythagorean theorem - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle.It states that the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares on the other two sides.

  3. Pythagorean triple - Wikipedia

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    A plot of triples generated by Euclid's formula maps out part of the z 2 = x 2 + y 2 cone. A constant m or n traces out part of a parabola on the cone. Euclid's formula [3] is a fundamental formula for generating Pythagorean triples given an arbitrary pair of integers m and n with m > n > 0. The formula states that the integers

  4. Law of cosines - Wikipedia

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    Fig. 1 – A triangle. The angles α (or A), β (or B), and γ (or C) are respectively opposite the sides a, b, and c.. In trigonometry, the law of cosines (also known as the cosine formula or cosine rule) relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosine of one of its angles.

  5. Identity (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Visual proof of the Pythagorean identity: for any angle , the point (,) = (⁡, ⁡) lies on the unit circle, which satisfies the equation + =.Thus, ⁡ + ⁡ =. In mathematics, an identity is an equality relating one mathematical expression A to another mathematical expression B, such that A and B (which might contain some variables) produce the same value for all values of the variables ...

  6. Quadratic formula - Wikipedia

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    The quadratic formula is exactly correct when performed using the idealized arithmetic of real numbers, but when approximate arithmetic is used instead, for example pen-and-paper arithmetic carried out to a fixed number of decimal places or the floating-point binary arithmetic available on computers, the limitations of the number representation ...

  7. Weyl group - Wikipedia

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    For example, for the general linear group GL, a maximal torus is the subgroup D of invertible diagonal matrices, whose normalizer is the generalized permutation matrices (matrices in the form of permutation matrices, but with any non-zero numbers in place of the '1's), and whose Weyl group is the symmetric group.

  8. Trigonometric substitution - Wikipedia

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    In the integral , we may use = ⁡, = ⁡, = ⁡. Then, = ⁡ ⁡ = ⁡ (⁡) = ⁡ ⁡ = = + = ⁡ +. The above step requires that > and ⁡ > We can choose to be the principal root of , and impose the restriction / < < / by using the inverse sine function.

  9. Difference of two squares - Wikipedia

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    The formula for the difference of two squares can be used for factoring polynomials that contain the square of a first quantity minus the square of a second quantity. For example, the polynomial x 4 − 1 {\displaystyle x^{4}-1} can be factored as follows: