Re: factoring quartic over radicals
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- Subject: [mg37064] Re: factoring quartic over radicals
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 05:26:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
In[]:=Factor[x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x + 1, Extension -> {GoldenRatio,
1/GoldenRatio}]
Out[]=-((-3 - 2*x + Sqrt[5]*x + GoldenRatio*x - 3*x^2)*
(3 + x + Sqrt[5]*x + GoldenRatio*x + 3*x^2))/9
Regards
Jens
Steve Earth wrote:
>
> 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/