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Some new aspects of the stability of the quadratic mappings are considered. One of the results refers to the stability of Hyers-Ulam-Rassias type, where the functional inequality of the form \[ \| f(x+y)+f(x-y)-2f(x)-2f(y)\| \leq \varepsilon(\| x\| ^p+\| y\| ^p) \] is dealt with. In the main result it is shown that, for mappings taking values in the interval \([0,\infty)\), if the quotient \[ \frac{f(x+y)+f(x-y)}{2f(x)+2f(y)} \] is close to 1, then so is the quotient \(\frac{f}{Q}\), for some quadratic mapping \(Q\). It is also shown that if a mapping between two vector spaces satisfies the quadratic equation for all nonzero vectors, then it must be a quadratic one.