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Solving Quadratics Quickly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

R. F. Wheeler*
Affiliation:
Hymers College, Hull

Extract

The writer wishes first to acknowledge his indebtedness to Prof. Brodetsky’s book [1] on Nomography; the following observations were, in fact, suggested as a result of reading that work.

Nomography, as most readers will know, is essentially a method of solving problems graphically, but whereas with ordinary graphical solutions a new curve must be drawn each time the data are changed, a nomogram once drawn can be used to solve all problems of a given type (e.g. to solve all equations of the form a cos x +b sin x = l, or to solve all possible pairs of simultaneous linear equations in two unknowns).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1957

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References

1. Brodetsky, S. A First Course in Nomography. G. Bell & Sons.Google Scholar
2. D’Ocagne, P. M., Traite de Nomographie. Villars, G. Paris.Google Scholar
3. Whittaker, E. T. Edin. Math. Soc. Notes no. 19 (Dec. 1915), p. 125.Google Scholar