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Revision as of 18:05, 24 August 2007
In algebra, completing the square is a way of rewriting a quadratic polynomial as the sum of a constant and a constant multiple of the square of a first-degree polynomial. Thus one has
and completing the square is the way of filing in the blank between the brackets.