surd

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It offers private, group and corporate surf lessons, as well as an after-school program, surd camps and rentals, according to its website.

From Washington Times • Aug. 12, 2021

I will avoid equations, And shun the naughty surd, I must beware the perfect square, Through it young girls have erred: And when men mention Rule of Three Pretend I have not heard.

From Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Miller, Alice Duer

Conversely every positive quadratic surd number, when expressed as a simple continued fraction, will give rise to a recurring fraction.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various

The second case illustrates a feature of the recurring continued fraction which represents a complete quadratic surd.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various

Tell we, we twain, Unreasons which in life Deal me inexorable, contrary Destinies surd to prayer and tearful woe.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various