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  • And I did some more quadratic equations like 0 = 437x2 + 103x + 11 and 0 = 79x2 + 43x + 2089 and I made some of the coefficients large so that they were hard to solve.†   (source)
  • I have got to be the most pathetic human being on the planet. polynomials term: variables multiplied by a coefficient degree of polynomial = the degree of the term with the highest degree Hello?†   (source)
  • Now, what do we mean by the weight flow coefficient?†   (source)
  • Then came six subtly different values for her hull form block and prismatic coefficients.†   (source)
  • There are drag coefficients.†   (source)
  • Find a polynomial with integer coefficients that has the following zeros: —'/3, 2, 3 + i. Matthew throws a Pop Tart at Joaquim while seated at the table for lunch.†   (source)
  • I mean, what sort of coefficient of thermal expansion?†   (source)
  • …deal of these leakages from my youthful psyche, saving only a hundred pages or so with nostalgic value, including the stuff on Leslie and a nine-hundred-word treatise—surprisingly witty for a journal so freighted otherwise with angst and deep thoughts—on the relative merits, apparent friction coefficients, fragrance and so forth of the various lubricants I had used while practicing the Secret Vice, my hands-down winner being Ivory Flakes well-emulsified in water at body temperature.†   (source)
  • The first equation I needed to do was the one that defined the thrust coefficient.†   (source)
  • And we can't get enough thermal coefficient on one spot unless it sort of sticks out.†   (source)
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  • The series of equations we needed to work described the parameters of thrust coefficient, nozzle-throat area, combustion-chamber cross-sectional areas, and velocity of the gases predicted for any particular propellant.†   (source)
  • "This is based on the Typhoon hull, with a nice slick hull coefficient, so it's probably conservative."†   (source)
  • Although the asteroid is currently well within the orbit of Venus, the degree of thermal coefficient necessary for successful melting of the entire, assuming any significant quantity of nickel iron in its composition, is one point six times ten to the sixteenth joules.†   (source)
  • —Platinoid, the professor said solemnly, is preferred to German silver because it has a lower coefficient of resistance by changes of temperature.†   (source)
  • Had there been such a thing as a determination to apply to Swann a social coefficient peculiar to himself, as distinct from all the other sons of other stockbrokers in his father's position, his coefficient would have been rather lower than theirs, because, leading a very simple life, and having always had a craze for 'antiques' and pictures, he now lived and piled up his collections in an old house which my grandmother longed to visit, but which stood on the Quai d'Orleans, a…†   (source)
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