| Title: | Mathematics at DEC | 
| Moderator: | RUSURE::EDP | 
| Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 | 
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 2083 | 
| Total number of notes: | 14613 | 
    A barely readable old manuscript contains the following factorised
    quadratic:
    
    x�+#x-#1 = (x+##)(x-#)
    
    where # represents an unreadable digit. (A # may or may not be the same
    digit as any other #.) Reconstruct the factorisation.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1852.1 | It was good reading, too! | VMSDEV::HALLYB | Fish have no concept of fire | Mon Mar 14 1994 09:08 | 5 | 
|     I happen to have a readable copy of the same manuscript.
    
    	x�+6x-91 = (x+13)(x-7)
    
      John
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