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New way to solve quadratic equations?

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
It is a good article, but the title is a bit misleading.

It is not a new technique as such, as the educator cited correctly indicates. Instead, the article dedicates itself to an appreciation of one of the simplest, most intuitive ways of arriving at a very slightly simplified form of the Baskara formula from scratch and explaining the logical implications of the method.

Good reading and very much worth spreading, but far more impressive for the quality didactics than for any "new findings".
 

Polymath257

Think & Care
Staff member
Premium Member
It is, in essence, the same as completing the square. So the technique goes all the way back to the Babylonians. They also played with the average difference (and average) to solve a wide array of equations.

Now, if they figure out how to solve a cubic like this, I'll take notice! :)
 
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