Subject: How do I find the roots of a complex equation?
From: Alexey Beshenov
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 07:24:15 +0300
On Saturday 06 December 2008 07:11 you wrote:
> I tried factor, but it gave up on a complex equation. eg.
> x^2-4*x+53.
>
> I assume there is another command to do so? I looked under the
> polynomial section but could not find anything.
factor (x^2-4*x+53) => x^2-4*x+53
gfactor (x^2-4*x+53) => (x-7*%i-2)*(x+7*%i-2)
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