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Re: factor

From	"G. A. Edgar" <edgar@math.ohio-state.edu.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.maple
Subject	Re: factor
Date	2014-10-19 06:42 -0600
Organization	Ohio State Univ
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> >A third-order polynomial with real coefficients definitely has a real
> >algebraic number zero. But the Maple command factor(p) and any other ways in Maple we tried don't factor it out.

Look up "casus irreducibilis" for some fun:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casus_irreducibilis

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G. A. Edgar                              http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/

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