• d’Alembert, Jean, 263

  • Dantzig, George, 470

  • Decibel, 392

  • Decimal, repeating, 2, 524

  • Degree: as measure of angle, 55, 114; of polynomial, 30

  • DeMoivre’s theorem, 360

  • Denominate number, 4

  • Denominator: common, 205; rationalizing of, 334, 340

  • Dependent system of equations, 150, 156, 163

  • Dependent variable, 86

  • Descartes, René, 94, 323, 403, 432, 568

  • Descartes’ rule of signs, 432

  • Determinant, 159; higher-order, 461 ­properties of, 463; second-order, 159; third-order, 169, 461

  • Deviation, 643; standard, 630

  • Diagonal, 65

  • Diagonal of determinant, 159

  • Diameter, 68

  • Difference, common, 516

  • Direct variation, 504

  • Directrix of parabola, 584

  • Displacement, 267, of sine curve, 306

  • Distance formula, 569

  • Distributive law, 7

  • Dividend, 36

  • Division: of algebraic expressions ...

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