Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
>
>> Who somehow did memorize the quadratic formula...
>
> Can you derive it?
>
Trivial. I ddn't memorize Cardano's formula, but I can
derive it easily: eliminate term in x^2, x = u + v then
eliminate term with uv.

OTOH, I have a hard time remembering some obscure
geometry formulas, even simple ones like
a^2 = b^2 + c^2 - [or +?] 2 [?] b c cos [or sin?] A

Alberto Monteiro


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