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From: hoford@sequoia.circ.upenn.edu (John Hoford)
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Subject: Re: Finding roots of Tertiary and above equations?
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Date: 8 Apr 91 15:38:47 GMT
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In article <21858@shlump.nac.dec.com> edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Eric Postpischil (Always mount a scratch monkey.)) writes:
>In short, no.  For polynomials up to degree four, there are exact
>algebraic solutions.  Beyond that, numerical methods must be used. 
>There are good methods (and the 48 has a good
>method built in, for real solutions), but they are not guaranteed to
>find all roots.

Is this true in the sense that, a solution involving a square root