A Canadian Ghost Town That Is Stuck In Time (66 pics) Kitsault is a town in British Columbia, Canada which has been abandoned for the past 30 years. The town was erected in 1979 due to the emergence of the American Mining Corporation Phelps Dodge and Molybdenum mine in the area and was originally intended as a base to house miners and their families.
The discriminant is a homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients; it is also a homogeneous polynomial in the roots. In the coefficients, the discriminant is homogeneous of degree 2 n â2; this can be seen two ways.
The discriminant refers to a particular section of the quadratic formula, which is #-b +- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)/(2a)#. The discriminant is only the following part of the formula, the part under the radical/square root sign: #sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)#. In this case, the discriminant would be: #(-4)^2 - 4(1)(10)#. Or just #16 - 40# which is equal to #-24#.