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 ...

Quadratic graph lines are U- or Ո-shaped, which is called a parabola. A linear graph can be drawn using only three points. A quadratic graph is a curve, so more points are plotted to support accuracy.

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 ...

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 ...

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