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  2. Difference of two squares - Wikipedia

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    The difference of two squares is used to find the linear factors of the sum of two squares, using complex number coefficients. For example, the complex roots of can be found using difference of two squares: (since ) Therefore, the linear factors are and . Since the two factors found by this method are complex conjugates, we can use this in ...

  3. Square number - Wikipedia

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    More generally, the difference of the squares of two numbers is the product of their sum and their difference. That is, = (+) This is the difference-of-squares formula, which can be useful for mental arithmetic: for example, 47 × 53 can be easily computed as 50 2 − 3 2 = 2500 − 9 = 2491.

  4. Sum of squares - Wikipedia

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    The sum of squares is not factorable. The squared Euclidean distance between two points, equal to the sum of squares of the differences between their coordinates. Heron's formula for the area of a triangle can be re-written as using the sums of squares of a triangle's sides (and the sums of the squares of squares)

  5. Quadratic equation - Wikipedia

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    Quadratic equation. In mathematics, a quadratic equation (from Latin quadratus ' square ') is an equation that can be rearranged in standard form as [1] where x represents an unknown value, and a, b, and c represent known numbers, where a ≠ 0. (If a = 0 and b ≠ 0 then the equation is linear, not quadratic.)

  6. Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares - Wikipedia

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    In additive number theory, Fermat 's theorem on sums of two squares states that an odd prime p can be expressed as: with x and y integers, if and only if. The prime numbers for which this is true are called Pythagorean primes. For example, the primes 5, 13, 17, 29, 37 and 41 are all congruent to 1 modulo 4, and they can be expressed as sums of ...

  7. Coefficient of determination - Wikipedia

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    If equation 1 of Kvålseth [12] is used (this is the equation used most often), R 2 can be less than zero. If equation 2 of Kvålseth is used, R 2 can be greater than one. In all instances where R 2 is used, the predictors are calculated by ordinary least-squares regression: that is, by minimizing SS res.

  8. Residual sum of squares - Wikipedia

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    Residual sum of squares. In statistics, the residual sum of squares (RSS), also known as the sum of squared residuals (SSR) or the sum of squared estimate of errors (SSE), is the sum of the squares of residuals (deviations predicted from actual empirical values of data). It is a measure of the discrepancy between the data and an estimation ...

  9. Euclidean distance - Wikipedia

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    Euclidean distance. In mathematics, the Euclidean distance between two points in Euclidean space is the length of the line segment between them. It can be calculated from the Cartesian coordinates of the points using the Pythagorean theorem, and therefore is occasionally called the Pythagorean distance. These names come from the ancient Greek ...