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Note on Solving Algebraic Equations by Root-cubing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

A. C. Aitken
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The advent of the modern calculating machine has reduced the labour of computation in an extraordinary degree; continued products, long division, and so on, offer no terrors to anyone who has access to any of the latest excellent machines; even the extraction of a square root can be performed to ten digits in a minute or two. Under these conditions the numerical solution of algebraic equations, a process stigmatised in the seventeenth century as intolerably laborious, can even be in danger of becoming a vice : the present note owes its origin to a mild indulgence.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 15 , Issue 216 , December 1931 , pp. 490 - 491
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1931

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References

page 490 note * Whittaker and Robinson, Calculus of Observations, p. 79.

page 490 note † Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 22 (1923), pp. 83-87.

page 491 note * Whittaker and Robinson, p. 109.