[sage-support] Re: Finding the roots of a polynomial

2009-03-05 Thread Bob
Mike, thanks, you da man! On Mar 5, 2:24 pm, Bob wrote: > I need to find the roots of this polynomial, where are coefficients > are in this matrix: > > coef=matrix([[1],[-1],[-1],[0]]) > > thanks in advance, and apologies if this is posted somewhere else, I > have not been able to find it. > > (

[sage-support] Re: Finding the roots of a polynomial

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Bob wrote: > > I need to find the roots of this polynomial, where are coefficients > are in this matrix: > > coef=matrix([[1],[-1],[-1],[0]]) First, you should construct a polynomial. A matrix of coefficients is not the preferred way to work with polynom