vertex

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This was practically confirmed using a vertex cover problem with 4096 vertices.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024

A nonlinear system could be representative of a parabola and a circle, where the vertex of the parabola meets the circle and the branches also intersect the circle, hence three solutions.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

We could use any basic function to illustrate transformations, but quadratics work nicely because we can easily keep track of a point called the vertex.

From Textbooks • Sep. 23, 2020

Since the parabola has a maximum, the h-coordinate of the vertex is the maximum value of the quadratic function.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

I stared at the peak for perhaps thirty minutes, trying to apprehend what it would be like to be standing on that gale- swept vertex.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer