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- noun Plural form of
surd .
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After a course of equations that flattened out my head like the Camargue, I was thrust into what are called surds, a sort of wood of errors, in which one spends hours in hewing one's way to get at nothing of the slightest profit to man or beast; finally, I believe my good tutor, now a bishop, got tired of me.
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Why the surds were called surds and determinants were called determinants?
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Why the surds were called surds and determinants were called determinants?
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Why the surds were called surds and determinants were called determinants?
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I shall dispense with all "surds" and similar absurdities, notwithstanding the fact that the sides of our triangle are clearly incommensurate, since we cannot exactly extract the square roots of the three square areas.
Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893
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These 'surds' of metaphysics ought to occasion no more difficulty in speculation than a perpetually recurring fraction in arithmetic.
Parmenides 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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An wii copiez all deh kind an luving surds and hugz, an senz dem 2 yew two.
abort!! abort!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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On the contrary, the nearer it approaches to simple natures, the easier and plainer will everything become, the business being transferred from the complicated to the simple; from the incommensurable to the commensurable; from surds to rational quantities; from the infinite and vague to the finite and certain; as in the case of the letters of the alphabet and the notes of music.
The New Organon 2005
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Book I on the measurement of areas is specially interesting for (1) its statement of the formula used by Heron for finding approximations to surds, (2) the elegant geometrical proof of the formula for the area of
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He seemed to live in some high abstract region of surds and conic sections, with little to connect him with ordinary life.
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927
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