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This post looks at an exercise from Special Functions, exercise 6 in Appendix E. Suppose that xm+1 + ax – b = 0. Show that Use this formula to find a solution to x5 + 4x + 2 = 0 to four decimal places of accuracy. When m = 0 this series reduces to the […]The post Quintic trinomial root first appeared on John D. Cook.