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From: jadwa@henry.cs.reading.ac.uk (James Anderson)
Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Solution of quartic equation
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Date: 23 Mar 88 10:30:09 GMT
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Keywords: quartic equation; unnecessary comlex cube roots
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I am an absolute beginner, so let me get this clear. If I have an
equation with several roots and I start Newton's method lower
than the least one it will converge to the least one and if I
start it larger than the largest it will converge to the largest?
No matter how close the roots are? Wow!

James

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