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From: akcs.ed@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Edwin S. Linderman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Finding roots of Tertiary and above equations?
Message-ID: <2804f002:2682.5comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 91 23:40:10 GMT
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Actually, you folks are a bit mistaken.  You CAN (Using a formula) get
5th degree roots.  It is more than 3 pages long, typed, and there is also
a proof that there is no 6th degree formula.  CRC Doesn't have it, being
that the 28th edition (light blue) is right beside me.   otherwise, You
need a good IBM/MAC program called Mathematica.  Wonderful.  It doesn't
give roots like 1.74382394+342981571.329823i, it gives 1-Sqrt(5)^3 (over
2, etc.)... VERY good.
Wolfram research