finding roots of a polynomial
?polyroot, and watch that x^4 appears to be missing.
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Vumani Dlamini wrote:
Dear listers,
I am trying to find the root of a polynomial of the form,
a+bx+cx^2+dx^3+ex^5+...=0
where a,b,c,d,e are known.
I have looked at "quadprog" without any success.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595