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parabola

The U-shaped (or upside-down-U) curve every quadratic graphs into.

A parabola is the graph of a quadratic function y=ax^2+bx+c. It opens upward when a>0 and downward when a<0, and it is a mirror image of itself across a single vertical line through its lowest or highest point.

Examples

  • y=x^2 graphs as a parabola opening upward with its lowest point at the origin.

See also

vertex discriminant
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