Wtf is a quadratic formula?

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » December 18th, 2007, 18:47

friznit wrote:
Hehe, I did give it a go, but it needed solver installed.

No need for solver.

http://rapidshare.com/files/77474077/ax2bxc.xls.html

Post by **deject** » December 18th, 2007, 20:21

it should be noted that if you can easily factor out a quadratic into two terms that are multiplied together doing so is much simpler than solving the quadratic directly.

by factoring I mean something like x^2 + 7x + 12 can be factored into (x+3)(x+4).

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » December 18th, 2007, 21:22

Which would be a*(x-x1)*(x-x2) Deej.