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- From: t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: Best way to factor out roots
- Keywords: factor, polynomials
- Message-ID: <1832@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 14:39:14 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.221002.5021@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Reply-To: t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
- Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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- One way to factor out 'known' roots from a large polynomial is by
- 'substitution'.
- Suppose you know that 5 is a root. Then you replace
- x-5 by y, or x -> y+5 or whatever the syntax demands.
- This operation involves an amount of work which is related to the
- sum of all powers in your polynomial (plus some extra for the fact that
- the binomial coefficients can become large).
- The new polynomial should have a root at y = 0, so it is rather easy
- to divide it out. After that you go to the next 'known root'.
- Other methods are variations of this. If you divide by (x-5) the
- partial fractioning involved is equivalent to the above procedure.
-
- Jos Vermaseren
-