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Numerical stability refers to how a malformed input affects the execution of an algorithm. In a numerically stable algorithm, errors in the input lessen in significance as ...

The study of numbers for the supposed purpose of predicting future events or seeking connections with the occult.

The symbol ÷ used to indicate division. In typography, an obelus has a more general definition as any symbol, such as the dagger (|), used to indicate a footnote (Bringhurst ...

A plane coordinate system whose axes are not perpendicular. The x-coordinate of a point P is the abscissa of its projection onto the x-axis in the direction of the y-axis, ...

A triangle that is not a right triangle.

Obstruction theory studies the extensibility of maps using algebraic gadgets. While the terminology rapidly becomes technical and convoluted (as Iyanaga and Kawada (1980) ...

An angle greater than pi/2 radians (90 degrees) and less than pi radians (180 degrees).

An 18-sided polygon, sometimes also called an octakaidecagon.

An octagon is an eight-sided polygon. Several special types of octagons are illustrated above. In particular, an octagon with vertices equally spaced around a circle and with ...

A polygonal number of the form O_n=n(3n-2). The first few are 1, 8, 21, 40, 65, 96, 133, 176, ... (OEIS A000567). The generating function for the octagonal numbers is ...