Re: Explicit solution to Root[]
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- Subject: [mg58442] Re: Explicit solution to Root[]
- From: "Chris" <topher at csh.rit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 04:07:02 -0400 (EDT)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Well, just typing it into Mathematica, I get it to reduce to: Root[-24 + 6*#1 + 51*#1^2 - 40*#1^3 - 54*#1^4 + 54*#1^5 & , 1, 0] Since it's the solution to a polynomial of degree 5, it's unlikely that you'll get a nice clean solution with just radicals. You can find more about the quintic equation here: http://library.wolfram.com/examples/quintic/ If you want a symbolic answer, you can use a function I wrote called ToSymbolic based off of the above link, but the answer is pretty unwieldy. http://www.csh.rit.edu/~topher/math/tosymbolic.html In[66]:= N[Root[-24 + 6*#1 + 51*#1^2 - 40*#1^3 - 54*#1^4 + 54*#1^5 &, 1, 0]] Out[66]= 1.11221 In[70]:= ToSymbolic[Root[-24 + 6*#1 + 51*#1^2 - 40*#1^3 - 54*#1^4 + 54*#1^5 &, 1]]; In[71]:= N[%] Out[71]= {1.11221}