Comment on A new way to make quadratic equations easyparentComments−knzhou6yYeah, half the elegance of the linked expressions just comes from setting A = 1.This is definitely well-known. I learned this under the name of "Vieta's formulas" back in middle school. Vieta lived in the 1500s.
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Yeah, half the elegance of the linked expressions just comes from setting A = 1.
This is definitely well-known. I learned this under the name of "Vieta's formulas" back in middle school. Vieta lived in the 1500s.