Binomial

At the age of twenty-one he wrote a treatise upon the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue.

OK, so when you "FOIL" two binomials, you multiply the first term in each binomial, then the outer terms, then the inner terms, then the last terms, and then you combine like terms. That's what FOIL stands for. Let me show you an example.

We will have a quiz on binomial nomenclature next week.

Finally, instead of returning to Chile’s traditional proportional representation system, the law adopted the “binomial” system, which gave strong incentives to the parties to form broad coalitions.

Assuming a normal approximation to binomial probabilities the proportion of total complications reported for 1979–85 in the age class 0–14 years was significantly higher than the proportion in the same age class for the period 1962–69 (p < 0·0001)

Common name followed by Latin binomial in parentheses.