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BIQUADRATIC (from the Lat. bi-, bis, twice, and quadratus, squared)

BIQUADRATIC (from the See also:
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Lat. bi-, bis, twice, and quadratus, squared) . In See also:

MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics, the See also:

BIQUADRATIC (from the Lat. bi-, bis, twice, and quadratus, squared)

biquadratic See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power or See also:

root of a quantity is its See also:

FOURTH

fourth power or root (see See also:

ALGEBRA (from the Arab. al-jebr wa'l-mugabala, transposition and removal [of terms of an equation], the name of a treatise by Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi)

ALGEBRA) ; a biquadratic See also:

EQUATION (from Lat. aequatio, aequare, to equalize)

equation is an equation in which the highest power of the unknown is the fourth (see EQUATION: Biquadratic) .

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