factoring quartic over radicals
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- Subject: [mg37006] factoring quartic over radicals
- From: Steve Earth <SteveE at harker.org>
- Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 05:32:48 -0400 (EDT)
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Greetings MathGroup, My name is Steve Earth, and I am a new subscriber to this list and also a new user of Mathematica; so please forgive this rather simple question... I would like to enter the quartic x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x + 1 into Mathematica and have it be able to tell me that it factors into (x^2 + GoldenRatio x + 1) ( x^2 - 1/GoldenRatio x + 1) What instructions do I need to execute to achieve this output? -Steve Earth Harker School http://www.harker.org/
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