Erk, my mistake, it's just 1 over x-7 or whatever because it's the remainder. My bad. Thanks Daniel for all the help. :-)
Thanks, Stephen Craton http://www.melchior.us - -----Original Message----- - From: Stephen Craton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 5:11 PM - To: 'PHP List' - Subject: RE: [PHP] Calculator Script - - Well, that would almost work, except that for something like (2x^2 - 8x - - 41) / (x-7). - - A = 2 - B+A*R = 6 - C+B*R+A*R^2 = 1 - - This is actually pretty close: 2x + 8 + (1 / (x-7)) - - I guess there isn't any one way to really make this program work, unless - you - have any ideas. - - Thanks, - Stephen Craton - http://www.melchior.us - - - - -----Original Message----- - - From: Daniel Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 4:58 PM - - To: Daniel Purdy; Stephen Craton - - Cc: PHP List - - Subject: RE: [PHP] Calculator Script - - - - [snip] - - A = 1 - - B+A*R = 9 - - C+B*R+A*R^2 = -7 - - - - I get (b/3) + 3 - (7/3b) when I work it out by hand, and a teacher of - - mine got the same thing. What exactly is this program finding, since it - - obviously isn't any coefficients? - - [/snip] - - - - Acutally, looking at it further, it looks like it actually almost did it - - correctly. If you take the results that the calculator gave you and - - divide them by 3 then you get your answer. So the caluclator divides it - - by b then you have to add in a part of it to divide by the 3. HTH!! - - - - -- - - PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) - - To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php - - - - -- - - PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) - - To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php - - - - - - -- - PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) - To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php - - -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
