Citations:FOIL

English citations of FOIL

• 2003 February, Douglas Downing, Algebra the Easy Way, 4th edition, →ISBN, →OL, page 90:

  "We can use the word 'foil' to remember the procedure!" the professor suddenly realized. "We need to remember:

  First times first

  Outside times outside

  Inside times inside

  Last time last

  If you put them together they spell F-O-I-L — or FOIL."

  We decided to call this the FOIL method for multiplying binomials.