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two terms walking into a parenthesis, daring you to expand them.
means In algebra, an expression made of exactly two terms joined by a plus or minus sign, like (a + b); more broadly, anything composed of two named parts, as in biology's two-word species names.
from A 16th-century mathematical coinage built from Latin bi- 'two' and the root of nomen 'name' (via nominalis, 'of a name'), so quite literally 'two-named.' It belongs to a small family with monomial and polynomial, where the shared element is the Latin/Greek sense of a 'term' or 'name' standing in an expression.
- the name
- Latin for two names, like a math nickname
- famous theorem
- its expansion fills Pascal's triangle perfectly
- distribution
- counts coin-flip successes across repeated trials
- taxonomy too
- every species gets a two-word binomial name
- newton's pride
- he generalized it to fractional and negative powers
binomial theorem — newton's mathematical formula for expanding (x+y)^n, published 1665
binomial nomenclature — linnaeus's classification system using genus and species names, established 1753