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Indeterminate Form
Indeterminate form is a mathematical expression that can obtain any value depending on circumstances. In calculus, it is usually possible to compute the limit of the sum, difference, product, quotient or power of two functions by taking the corresponding combination of the separate limits of each respective function. For example, \begin \lim_ \bigl(f(x) + g(x)\bigr) &= \lim_ f(x) + \lim_ g(x), \\ mu\lim_ \bigl(f(x)g(x)\bigr) &= \lim_ f(x) \cdot \lim_ g(x), \end and likewise for other arithmetic operations; this is sometimes called the algebraic limit theorem. However, certain combinations of particular limiting values cannot be computed in this way, and knowing the limit of each function separately does not suffice to determine the limit of the combination. In these particular situations, the limit is said to take an indeterminate form, described by one of the informal expressions \frac 00,~ \frac,~ 0\times\infty,~ \infty - \infty,~ 0^0,~ 1^\infty, \text \infty^0, among a wide ...
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Calculus
Calculus is the mathematics, mathematical study of continuous change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape, and algebra is the study of generalizations of arithmetic operations. Originally called infinitesimal calculus or "the calculus of infinitesimals", it has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus. The former concerns instantaneous Rate of change (mathematics), rates of change, and the slopes of curves, while the latter concerns accumulation of quantities, and areas under or between curves. These two branches are related to each other by the fundamental theorem of calculus. They make use of the fundamental notions of convergence (mathematics), convergence of infinite sequences and Series (mathematics), infinite series to a well-defined limit (mathematics), limit. It is the "mathematical backbone" for dealing with problems where variables change with time or another reference variable. Infinitesimal calculus was formulated separately ...
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Point At Infinity
In geometry, a point at infinity or ideal point is an idealized limiting point at the "end" of each line. In the case of an affine plane (including the Euclidean plane), there is one ideal point for each pencil of parallel lines of the plane. Adjoining these points produces a projective plane, in which no point can be distinguished, if we "forget" which points were added. This holds for a geometry over any field, and more generally over any division ring. In the real case, a point at infinity completes a line into a topologically closed curve. In higher dimensions, all the points at infinity form a projective subspace of one dimension less than that of the whole projective space to which they belong. A point at infinity can also be added to the complex line (which may be thought of as the complex plane), thereby turning it into a closed surface known as the complex projective line, CP1, also called the Riemann sphere (when complex numbers are mapped to each point). In the c ...
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Indeterminate (variable)
In mathematics, an indeterminate or formal variable is a Variable (mathematics), variable (a mathematical symbol, symbol, usually a letter) that is used purely formally in a mathematical expression, but does not stand for any value. In mathematical analysis, analysis, a mathematical expression such as is usually taken to represent a quantity whose value is a function (mathematics), function of its variable , and the variable itself is taken to represent an unknown or changing quantity. Two such functional expressions are considered equal whenever their value is equal for every possible value of within the Domain of a function, domain of the functions. In abstract algebra, algebra, however, expressions of this kind are typically taken to represent mathematical object, objects in themselves, elements of some algebraic structure – here a polynomial, element of a polynomial ring. A polynomial can be formally defined as the sequence of its coefficients, in this case , and the expr ...
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Indeterminate System
In mathematics, particularly in number theory, an indeterminate system has fewer equations than unknowns but an additional a set of constraints on the unknowns, such as restrictions that the values be integers. In modern times indeterminate equations are often called Diophantine equations. Examples Linear indeterminate equations An example linear indeterminate equation arises from imagining two equally rich men, one with 5 rubies, 8 sapphires, 7 pearls and 90 gold coins; the other has 7, 9, 6 and 62 gold coins; find the prices (y, c, n) of the respective gems in gold coins. As they are equally rich: 5y + 8c + 7n + 90 = 7y + 9c + 6n + 62 Bhāskara II gave an general approach to this kind of problem by assigning a fixed integer to one (or N-2 in general) of the unknowns, e.g. n=1, resulting a series of possible solutions like (y, c, n)=(14, 1, 1), (13, 3, 1). For given integers , and , the general linear indeterminant equation is ax + by = n with unknowns and restricted to in ...
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