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From: Gregory Toomey
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 04:49

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Jon wrote:

> Polynomial Roots to any Degree
> Vector Calculus Method

We has enough of this nonsense last month.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuinticEquation.html
Unlike quadratic, cubic, and quartic polynomials, the general quintic cannot
be solved algebraically in terms of a finite number of additions,
subtractions, multiplications, divisions, and root extractions, as
rigorously demonstrated by Abel  (Abel's impossibility theorem) and Galois.

gtoomey

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