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  2. Geometrical properties of polynomial roots - Wikipedia

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    For polynomials with real or complex coefficients, it is not possible to express a lower bound of the root separation in terms of the degree and the absolute values of the coefficients only, because a small change on a single coefficient transforms a polynomial with multiple roots into a square-free polynomial with a small root separation, and ...

  3. Vieta's formulas - Wikipedia

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    Vieta's formulas are frequently used with polynomials with coefficients in any integral domain R. Then, the quotients a i / a n {\displaystyle a_{i}/a_{n}} belong to the field of fractions of R (and possibly are in R itself if a n {\displaystyle a_{n}} happens to be invertible in R ) and the roots r i {\displaystyle r_{i}} are taken in an ...

  4. Gauss–Lucas theorem - Wikipedia

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    where the complex numbers,, …, are the – not necessarily distinct – zeros of the polynomial P, the complex number α is the leading coefficient of P and n is the degree of P. For any root z {\displaystyle z} of P ′ {\displaystyle P'} , if it is also a root of P {\displaystyle P} , then the theorem is trivially true.

  5. Rational root theorem - Wikipedia

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    q is an integer factor of the leading coefficient a n. The rational root theorem is a special case (for a single linear factor) of Gauss's lemma on the factorization of polynomials. The integral root theorem is the special case of the rational root theorem when the leading coefficient is a n = 1.

  6. Complex conjugate root theorem - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the complex conjugate root theorem states that if P is a polynomial in one variable with real coefficients, and a + bi is a root of P with a and b being real numbers, then its complex conjugate a − bi is also a root of P. [1]

  7. Cubic equation - Wikipedia

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    First, if r is a root of a polynomial with real coefficients, ... There is an interesting geometrical relationship among all these roots.

  8. Descartes' rule of signs - Wikipedia

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    The number of positive real roots is at most the number of sign changes in the sequence of polynomial's coefficients (omitting zero coefficients), and the difference between the root count and the sign change count is always even. In particular, when the number of sign changes is zero or one, then there are exactly zero or one positive roots.

  9. Quadratic equation - Wikipedia

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    The numbers a, b, and c are the coefficients of the equation and may be distinguished by respectively calling them, the quadratic coefficient, the linear coefficient and the constant coefficient or free term. [2] The values of x that satisfy the equation are called solutions of the equation, and roots or zeros of the quadratic function on its ...