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  • You can poke a $a+b = c$ anywhere in your text; typing $$a+b = c$$ will make the formula behave like a block between paragraphs % is used to include comments.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks 2010

  • April 4th, 2009 at 6: 31 pm a+b = what my mom feels ..

    Well then, never you mind. 2009

  • Take two vectors a and b in a Eucledian space and add them to form vector c = a+b.

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • If two variables a and b are highly correlated, orthogonalization would just replace them by something like a+b and a-b.

    Multicollinearity and Micronumerosity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • When ai tole himz ai seed it he shook himz hed an said da upper mafs nawt fore mi cause dere was no wae to “see da a+b=x to da 9th power”.

    AHHHH… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • The ring of numbers of the form a+b ˆš 2 where a and b are rational, because a+b ˆš 2 is zero only when

    Algebra Pratt, Vaughan 2007

  • The group of numbers of the form a+b ˆš 2 where a and b are integer, because

    Algebra Pratt, Vaughan 2007

  • Let the ages at first be x, y, (x + y) Now, if a+b = 2c, then (a-n) + (b-n) = 2 (c-n), whatever be the value of n.

    A Tangled Tale 2003

  • The song of a yellow warbler in the school maples, the whirl of scarlet leaves across the window pane, or the gleam of snow on the far-off hilltops, would drive away every item of knowledge concerning the value of (a+b) 2 or the characteristics of a parallelogram.

    'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • Apres cela vient un mathematicien qui vous bourre avec des a+b et vous rapporte enfin un x+y, dont vous n'avex pas besoin et qui ne change nullement vos relations avec la vie.

    Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

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