algebraic equation
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When measuring intelligence, cognitive scientists emphasize an organism's ability to effective adapt to its surroundings, not human-centric activities like reading a book or solving an algebraic equation.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2021
He was so delighted that he stopped and carved the defining algebraic equation into the bridge: i2=j2=k2=ijk=-1.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 7, 2019
“This miraculous footballer, this halo of a footballer! ... He’s got an algebraic equation to solve in the blink of a baby’s eye, and he does it in a way that is just so poetic!”
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2019
A group whose rhythms and time signatures on first listen read like a precisely written algebraic equation overtaking a mathematician's chalkboard, Deerhoof has etched a singular line through its two decades as a band.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2015
I decided one day in the middle of an algebraic equation to change my luckless life by changing my hands.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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