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rational form

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noun

Mathematics.
  1. a quotient of two polynomials with integral coefficients.


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For the transformed reciprocal squared function, we find the rational form.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Hegel, Fukuyama said, had written of a moment when a perfectly rational form of society and the state would become victorious.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

In the early 20th century, the great sociologist Max Weber noted that the rise of mechanization and increase in scale would lead a more rational form of  organization.

From Forbes • Jul. 17, 2015

“I prefer to focus on a slightly more rational form of science.”

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2012

In this attempt the philosophy of the complex vision is bound to recognize, and include in its rational form, much that remains mysterious, arbitrary, indetermined, organic, obstinately illogical.

From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper