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Finally something interesting in this thread. Why is it vastly superior? Isn't the quadratic formula just the end result from completing the square and going through the maths?
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Posted 2012-December-31, 09:10
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
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Posted 2012-December-31, 09:21
Scarabin, on 2012-December-29, 02:02, said:
Imo what makes America exceptional is that it is the most successful country in the world and it is run under a constitution which ensures the government is dysfunctional.
As an aside, I wouldn't say America's constitution guarantees dysfunctional government, Israel's is much closer to guaranteeing that.
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Posted 2012-December-31, 09:43
Sure, but if all you know is the quadratic formula you have to do it the hard way even when it could have been easy. Quadratic completion encourages understanding what you're doing, the quadratic formula encourages learning formulas by rote as if they were magic incantations.
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