A new way to make quadratic equations easy
People are criticizing this because it is still the same quadratic formula. But of course it is! Math is consistent.<p>But representation matters. A good chunk of mathematics is just about rewriting the same mathematical fact in a different way. For example the equation of a line could be written with coefficients or in slope&#x2F;intercept form or in polar coordinates or in homogeneous coordinates or etc etc.<p>Here the claim is that explicitly giving a name to the variable -b&#x2F;2 makes the equation easier to think about. I see nothing wrong with that.