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Formulas used in science almost always require a choice of units. Formulas are used to express relationships between various quantities, such as temperature, mass, or charge in physics; supply, profit, or demand in economics; or a wide range of other quantities in other disciplines.
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are expressed as single letters instead of words or phrases. This convention, while less important in a relatively simple formula, means that mathematicians can more quickly manipulate formulas which are larger and more complex. Mathematical formulas are often
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In a general context, formulas often represent mathematical models of real world phenomena, and as such can be used to provide solutions (or approximate solutions) to real world problems, with some being more general than others. For example, the formula
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O, because the molecules of ethanol all contain two carbon atoms, six hydrogen atoms, and one oxygen atom. Some types of ionic compounds, however, cannot be written as empirical formulas which contains only the whole numbers. An example is
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O. Except for the very simple substances, molecular chemical formulas generally lack needed structural information, and might even be ambiguous in occasions.
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Having obtained this result, the volume of any sphere can be computed as long as its radius is known. Here, notice that the volume
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is, by convention, omitted because the result is always stored in the cell itself, making the stating of the name redundant.
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for example), mathematicians have produced a formula to describe the volume of a sphere in terms of its radius:
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refer to other cells (column A, row 1 or 2) within the spreadsheet. This is a shortcut for the "paper" form
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is a variable non-whole number ratio, with n ranging from over 4 to more than 6.5.
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is a drawing that shows the location of each atom, and which atoms it binds to.
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are distinct from formulas in the sense that they don't usually contain
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is a concise way of expressing information symbolically, as in a
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However, in some areas mathematics, and in particular in
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rather than the glucose empirical formula, which is CH
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molecule consisting of three oxygen atoms and a net
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Index

Formula (disambiguation)
A sphere
Isobutane
sphere
isobutane

computing science
founding generation
Edsger Dijkstra
ETH Zurich
A picture may be worth a thousand words
science
chemical formula
term
general construct of a relationship between given quantities
English plural noun form
scientific Latin
original Latin
mathematics
equation
inequality
mathematical expression
mathematical theorems
volume
sphere
integral calculus
geometrical
method of exhaustion
parameter
radius

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