Irreducible case

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(Alg.) a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore fails in its application.

See also: Irreducible

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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INVESTIGATING CARDANO'S IRREDUCIBLE CASE. ALEX EDWARDS, UNDERGRADUATE, UNIV.
Irreducible case We first appeal to Theorem 5.1 and perform the following according to which of the outputs we obtain.
In the reducible and irreducible cases no difficulty was encountered in the surgery.
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