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Article #15705Re: roots of polynomials
From: Jeff Haferman
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1987 03:25
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1987 03:25
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Try Mullers Method. It is a fairly popular algorithm used to find complex
roots of polynomials. I believe it works given complex coefficients, but
I'm not sure, it's been a while.
You should be able to find a solution to your problem by looking in any
good book on numerical analysis. The one I have is "Elementary Numerical
Analysis" by S. Conte and C. de Boor. This book may be especially helpful
if you're doing the work on a computer, since the method is given in
algorithmic form. One downfall is that you may have to do a fair amount
of scanning of preceding chapters in order to understand their notations
(divided differences, for example). Hope this helps.
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