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Solving Quadratics Quickly
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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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).
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