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Mechanical devices for solving quadratic and cubic equations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2008
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Quadratic Equations. The device is designed to give the numerical value of the numerically smaller root of the equation x2 – px + q = 0, the other root and the signs of the roots α, β being found thereafter from the relations α + β = p, α β = q.
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