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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: roots for quintic polynomial
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 00:21:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 00:21:32 1985
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> 	I am looking for equations (and references, if possible) which can be
> used to determine the roots of a fifth-order polynomial. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated !!!

The roots of a quintic polynomial can generally not be expressed
in closed form at all.  This is the lowest degree polynomial of
which this is true.