Ref: /abs/1910.06709 : A Simple Proof of the Quadratic FormulaĬorrection: We amended a sentence to say that the method has never been widely shared before and included a quote from Loh. Either way, Babylonian tax calculators would surely have been impressed. To speed adoption, Loh has produced a video about the method. The question now is how widely it will spread and how quickly. The derivation emerged from this process. Loh, who is a mathematics educator and popularizer of some note, discovered his approach while analyzing mathematics curricula for schoolchildren, with the goal of developing new explanations. “Perhaps the reason is because it is actually mathematically nontrivial to make the reverse implication: that always has two roots, and that those roots have sum −B and product C,” he says. So why now? Loh thinks it is related to the way the conventional approach proves that quadratic equations have two roots. None of them appear to have made this step, even though the algebra is simple and has been known for centuries. He has looked at methods developed by the ancient Babylonians, Chinese, Greeks, Indians, and Arabs as well as modern mathematicians from the Renaissance until today. Loh has searched the history of mathematics for an approach that resembles his, without success. Yet this technique is certainly not widely taught or known." Then, we plug these coefficients in the formula: (-b(b-4ac))/(2a). First, we bring the equation to the form ax+bx+c0, where a, b, and c are coefficients.
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Loh says he "would actually be very surprised if this approach has entirely eluded human discovery until the present day, given the 4,000 years of history on this topic, and the billions of people who have encountered the formula and its proof. Quadratic Formula Equation, How To Use Examples 'The quadratic formula helps us solve any quadratic equation.
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