On May 2, 11:29 pm, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > > The trick is that replacing x with j and evaluating > > therefore causes (in Python) all the coefficients of x (now j) to be > > added together separately from all the constant terms to reduce the > > linear equation to a*x+b (= 0 implied). > > Hmmm... so if we used quaternions, could we solve systems > of linear equations in 3 variables?
Yes :-) The implementation of a Quanternion class and the Quartic equation is left as an exercise for the reader ;-) Raymond @raymondh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
