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
At the point 2.25 feet above the vertex.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
For the following exercises, rewrite the given equation in standard form, and then determine the vertex focus and directrix of the parabola.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 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
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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
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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
We understand this cube to cast a shadow, which we usually draw as two squares with their vertices connected.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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