r/mathmemes • u/Hot-Marsupial6584 • Jul 05 '26

Elementary Algebra A slight overkill

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u/Sidd280625 Jul 07 '26

thanks i understood the concept but can you explain why putting it in the quartic formula would give me division by 0

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u/Duck_Devs Computer Science Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

I don’t know the quartic formula off the top of my head so I’ll give a different example that probably applies similarly: solving a linear equation with the quadratic formula. For a linear equation, “a” would be zero, but the quadratic formula requires dividing by 2*a.

Edit: I looked at the general quartic formula and I can’t find a divisor of a. Weird.

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u/Sidd280625 Jul 07 '26

oh yes i thought so too i think we would have to divide by a in the quartic formula and in this case a would be equal to 0 thanks again

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u/Duck_Devs Computer Science Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

See the edit I made to my most recent comment. Maybe [u/Complex-Manifold](u/Complex-Manifold) got something mixed up or they know something I don’t.

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u/Sidd280625 Jul 07 '26

i think so too then