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QUADRATIC(a,b,c)


  • , and are any real numbers.
    • QUADRATIC(),returns the quadratic equation

Description

  • This function gives the root values of a quadratic equation.
  • In elementary algebra, general quadratic equation is   where  ,  and   are constant values and   is unknown.
  • Constant   cannot be equal to zero(0).
  • The roots of a quadratic equation can be calculated as -

  and  

  • Geometrically, these roots represent the x values at which any parabola, explicitly given as y = ax2 + bx + c, crosses the x-axis.
  • The name Quadratic comes from "quad" meaning square, because the variable gets squared (like x^2).

It is also called an "Equation of Degree 2" (because of the "2" on the x)

  • Discriminant:

(b^2 − 4ac) in the formula above is called the Discriminant, because it can "discriminate" between the possible types of answer:

when (b^2 − 4ac) is positive, we get two Real solutions
when it is zero, we get just ONE real solution (both answers are the same)
when it is negative, we get two Complex solutions.

Examples

  1. =QUADRATIC(5,6,1)=-1 ; -0.2
  2. =QUADRATIC(5,2,1)=-0.2-ⅈ0.4 ; -0.2+ⅈ0.4
  3. =QUADRATIC(2,3,4)= -0.75-ⅈ1.1989578808281798 ; -0.75+ⅈ1.1989578808281798


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