Re: [sympy] sympy.roots failure

2010-01-11 Thread Robert Kern
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:27, Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:07 PM, cfriedalek wrote: >> However the next polynomial in the sequence fails i.e. >> sympy.roots(x**5 + x**4 + x**3 + x**2 + x - 11, x) >> {} >> >> A simple numerical root finder gives one real root. > > As far as I

Re: [sympy] sympy.roots failure

2010-01-11 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:07 PM, cfriedalek wrote: > OK I'm just a casual user trying to get the roots of a sequence of > polynomials. Thought I'd report a bug. I have pythonxy 2.6.2 installed > which comes with Sympy 0.6.5. In that version the roots failed at X**4 > as in: > > import sympy > x =

[sympy] sympy.roots failure

2010-01-11 Thread cfriedalek
OK I'm just a casual user trying to get the roots of a sequence of polynomials. Thought I'd report a bug. I have pythonxy 2.6.2 installed which comes with Sympy 0.6.5. In that version the roots failed at X**4 as in: import sympy x = sympy.Symbol('x') PASS sympy.roots(x**2 + x -5, x) sympy.roots(x