The Eastern and Western Cherokees having again reunited, and become one body politic, under the style and title of the Cherokee nation; Therefore, We, the people of the Cherokee nation, in National Convention assembled, in order to establish
In algebra, a quadratic function, a quadratic polynomial, a polynomial of degree 2, or simply a quadratic, is a polynomial function in one or more variables in which the highest-degree term is of the second degree.
So, given a quadratic function, y = ax 2 + bx + c, when a is positive, the parabola opens upward and the vertex is the minimum value. On the other hand, if a is negative, the graph opens downward and the vertex is the maximum value.