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Polynomial Update

Posted on October 30, 2012 by dougaj4

Following a comment here: Solving cubic and quartic equations with Excel the Quartic and CubicC User Defined Functions (UDFs) have been amended to fix a problem occurring with some combinations of coefficients. The updated spreadsheet (including full open source code) can be … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 19: Solving polynomials

Posted on October 6, 2012 by dougaj4

Today’s download provides analytic solutions to polynomial equations up to fourth order (that is quadratic, cubic and quartic equations) and an iterative method to solve equations of higher order.  All these functions are found in the download file: http://interactiveds.com.au/software/Polynomial.zip The … Continue reading →

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Ping Back Ping Backs

Posted on July 22, 2012 by dougaj4

One of the nice things about writing a blog is that when people follow a link to your site you get a link to where they came from, which often leads to interesting places you would not have otherwise found. … Continue reading →

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The Inverse Quadratic Method – 2

Posted on April 4, 2010 by dougaj4

Firstly a clarification from the previous post in this series.  The method presented in that post was a direct application of quadratic interpolation, rather than the inverse quadratic method, as implied by the post title.  The inverse quadratic method will be … Continue reading →

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Function roots with the Inverse Quadratic Method

Posted on March 31, 2010 by dougaj4

An earlier post presented various methods for finding the roots of polynomial functions based on the use of linear interpolation.  It is sometimes advantageous to use a quadratic interpolation function, and methods using this approach will be presented in this and following … Continue reading →

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