Yet Another Interpretation of Solutions to Quadratic Equations
Today’s post will be fairly short and simple, but may have interesting usages in other areas. Given a quadratic equation , it is well known that solutions for are given by the quadratic formula, . There are a multitude of ways to derive this: Completing the square: can be reduced to . At this point, we know easily how to solve equations of the form , and by extension , by simply taking square roots (being wary of the two…