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Note on Solving Algebraic Equations by Root-cubing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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The advent of the modern calculating machine has reduced the labour of computation in an extraordinary degree; continued products, long division, and so on, offer no terrors to anyone who has access to any of the latest excellent machines; even the extraction of a square root can be performed to ten digits in a minute or two. Under these conditions the numerical solution of algebraic equations, a process stigmatised in the seventeenth century as intolerably laborious, can even be in danger of becoming a vice : the present note owes its origin to a mild indulgence.
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page 490 note * Whittaker and Robinson, Calculus of Observations, p. 79.
page 490 note † Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 22 (1923), pp. 83-87.
page 491 note * Whittaker and Robinson, p. 109.
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