C CM politician Shamsi Nahodha recently questioned why we teach quadratic equations in primary or secondary school as part of a larger statement on how he thinks we should fix our education system.

Example 8.10: Quadratic Programming. The quadratic program can be solved by solving an equivalent linear complementarity problem when H is positive semidefinite. The approach is outlined in the ...

Everyone learns (and some readers maybe still remember) the quadratic formula. It’s a pillar of algebra and allows you to solve equations like Ax2+Bx+C=0. But just because you’ve used i… ...