STEP 1: Place a coin on a flat surface. Next to it, place four coins in the shape of a square. Image caption, STEP 2: Repeat this four times, increasing the size of the square by 1 coin in width and ...

The minimum point is the minimum y value that the parabola reaches. The maximum point is the maximum y value that the parabola reaches. The symmetry of the parabola is created because each x value is ...

You can run the script directly or import it. Running it will ask for an equation as input, then print out the parabola information. Importing it gives you access to the Parabola class. The program ...

Mubasshir Murshed, fondly known as "Mub" by his friends, is a 17-year-old mathematics genius who has been given the rare honour, for someone of his age, of being published in a national academic ...

E-mail from listeners prompts two corrections: One about Latin confusion and the other about the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. MANY listeners wrote in to point out that the Arch is not a parabola, as we ...

To find the tangent line to a curve at a point P we first pick another point on the curve a little bit away from P. Call this point Q. Do this below by clicking "Another Point". Then connect these two ...

Looking for the answers to ax² + bx + c = 0? A mathematician has rediscovered a technique that the ancient Babylonians used. By Kenneth Chang and Jonathan Corum The quadratic equation has frustrated ...

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