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From: bet@ecsvax.UUCP (Bennett E. Todd III)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Program to compute roots of the cubic polynomial
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 14:01:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 14:01:52 1985
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Reply-To: bet@ecsvax.UUCP (Bennett E. Todd III)
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I decided to look up the closed form to the cubic, which is indeed in
CRC's Standard Math Tables, and implement it. I like C, so I wrote it in
C. I commented the code in some detail explaining what I was doing,
which is just as well. It turns out the C lack of a complex data type
makes this particular application pretty complex, so to speak. You will
find the program with explanatory comments in net.sources. Enjoy.

-Bennett
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"Hypocrisy is the vaseline of social intercourse." (Who said that?)

Bennett Todd -- Duke Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706-7756; (919) 684-3695
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