Hi, well, I tried deriving the cubic formula using solving the cube method but the cx and bx^2 seems to be a nuisance.

Ice Sync

If you are serious about this, try Cardano's method.

-Dan

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Yeah well, I saw read that article before I posted it,
anyways I did derive a formula by "completing the cube" method, just took 5 minutes, sadly it only works for perfect cubes or cubic equations with one root.

It is

-27a^2d+b^3 is the discriminant, funny part is, the discriminant is always 0 so the actual formula is -b/3a.


Ice SYnc

There are occasionally neat formulas that work for specific kinds of cubics, but solving one in general is rather difficult. And if you think cubics are bad, you should try quartics!

-Dan

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And if you want to contemplate the impossible, try quintics

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That is the general case....that would be nearly impossible to solve for...Wow

just one root generally would be x=---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- that long basically

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OK, forget the formulas, here's the best, use remainder theorem and reduce it to a quadratic equation , the use the quadratic formula!!


Ice SYnc

How about n-thics ( degree as n )

wow , then we'd get a universal formula for solving any equation, forget it, use the remainder theorem

Well, no "n-thics" can yield a formula in terms of its coefficients for n > 4 by Abels Impossibility theorem. Try this link Abel's Impossibility Theorem -- from Wolfram MathWorld

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Wait isnt due to Galois Theory that we know there cant be a quintic equation?

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