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 # C - Quadratic Solver > Spikes
 
 ## Description
-Project spikes and code experiments go here.
+This directory contains all the spikes we wrote to help us understand the tools and data we deemed necessary to complete the quadratic solver program. Within each subdirectory is a separate folder that contains one spike. Each spike is written in the C programming language, with the exception of the _make_ spike.