Re: Why is the negative root?
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- Subject: [mg69506] Re: Why is the negative root?
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:56:14 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Peter,
what you do is just fine, ToRadical is the culprit, that somehow mixes
the various roots. Wolfram sholuld take note.
You can see this by:
Reduce[{z^3 - z^2 - b z - 1 == 0, b > 0, z > 0}, z] /. b -> 3.
will give the expected root.
Daniel
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p-valko at tamu.edu wrote:
> (Reduce[{z^3-z^2- b z-1==0, b>0, z>0}, z] //ToRadicals)/.b->3.//Chop
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> gives a negativ z:
>
> z == - 0.414214
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> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Regards
> Peter
>