Re: Issue 1868 in sympy: solve(floating point, x) stopped working

2011-05-22 Thread sympy
Comment #13 on issue 1868 by smi...@gmail.com: solve(floating point, x) stopped working http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1868 Mateusz, can you confirm that a general solution for a QUARTIC equation is not possible? So if a solution is requested and there are symbolic coeffi

Re: Issue 1868 in sympy: solve(floating point, x) stopped working

2011-05-22 Thread sympy
Comment #14 on issue 1868 by Vinzent.Steinberg: solve(floating point, x) stopped working http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1868 AFAIK, there exists a general solution for quartic equations. For polynomials of a higher degree than 4 it is proofed that no general solution exis