Discriminant of Polynomial/Examples/Quadratic

Example of Discriminant of Polynomial

Let $\alpha_1$ and $\alpha_2$ be the roots of a quadratic equation $f$.

The discriminant of $f$ is:

$\paren {\alpha_1 - \alpha_2}^2$
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