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vertex

[vur-teks] / ˈvɜr tɛks /


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

From Science Daily Mar. 25, 2024

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

Graphing of quadratic functions is much easier when we know the vertex and the axis of symmetry.

From Textbooks Sep. 23, 2020

The vertex is a point on the line of symmetry, so its x-coordinate will be x = 1 .

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

Two classes of shapes work, they proved: “boring parallelograms” and “surprising cyclic quadrilaterals,” cyclic meaning that all vertexes of a quadrilateral lie on a circle.

From New York Times Jan. 1, 2023

Fuller calls it a geodesic dome because the vertexes of the curved squares and tetrahedrons that form its structure mark the arcs of great circles that are known in geometry as "geodesies."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Science Daily Mar. 25, 2024

While place cells fire whenever an animal is in a specific location, grid cells fire only when the animal is at one of the vertices of a triangular lattice.

From Science Daily Oct. 30, 2023

Deneb is apparently the faintest of the stellar triangle vertices, but don’t be fooled.

From Scientific American Jul. 14, 2023

In the Blue Brain graph, for example, three neurons with all three synapses between them transmitting signals formed the vertices of a hollow triangle.

From Scientific American Sep. 26, 2022

It resembles two nested cubes, all the vertices connected by lines.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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